Law Quotes by Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.

— Aristotle

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

— Aristotle

The law is reason, free from passion.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the…

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst.”

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is…

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck.…

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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly…

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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or…

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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to…

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“Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and…

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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly…

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law,…

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the…

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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws…

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of…

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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are…

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in…

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,…

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the…

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That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions…

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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but…

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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…

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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in…

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the…

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For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;…

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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right…

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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