Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. — 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