Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it… — 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
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — 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
