The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — 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
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things…We ought rather to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful… — 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