Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — 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
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. — 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
