All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care… — 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
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — 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
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — 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
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — 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
![“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/796/aristotle-78_accurate_if-then-as-we-say-good-craftsmen-look-to_695282.jpg)
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.jpg)
