Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — 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
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present,… — 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
“We must not listen to those who advise us "being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts,"… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — 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
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — 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
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — 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
