The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is… — 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
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above 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 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
