The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — 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
