Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — 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
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — 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
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
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
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — 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
