The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — 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
