It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — 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
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — 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
