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
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — 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
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — 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
