Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — 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
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — 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
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the… — 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
