To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and… — 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
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — 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
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — 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
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