The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
