To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — 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
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — 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