It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing… — 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
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This… — 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
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
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade… — 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
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