If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — 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
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
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. — 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
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner,… — 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
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
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
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — 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 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
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
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
Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely… — 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
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent. — 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 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
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
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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