Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — 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
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — 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
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — 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
