Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the… — 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
