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
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own… — 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
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
