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
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as… — 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
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts… — 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
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — 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
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — 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
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — 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
