Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — 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
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
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
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
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
