Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.”… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a… — 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
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, 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
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — 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
