A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. — 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
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than… — 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
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein… — 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — 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
Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — 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
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — 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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