Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom… — 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
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — 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
These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — 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
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions;… — 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
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of… — 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