The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning… — 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
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even… — 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 pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing… — 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
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — 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
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — 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
