Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — 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
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — 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 many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first… — 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
