To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which… — 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
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude?… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — 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
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — 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 avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good. — 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
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
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. — 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
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — 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
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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