A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to… — 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
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — 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
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended. — 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
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness). — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
