That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. — 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
Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is… — 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
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — 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
