If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — 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
Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that… — 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
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — 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
