Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — 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
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — 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
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
