In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — 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
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — 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
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