We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger… — 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
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — 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
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — 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
