Should Quotes by Aristotle

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

— Aristotle

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

You should never think without an image.

— Aristotle

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

— Aristotle

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

— Aristotle

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

— Aristotle

They should rule who are able to rule best.

— Aristotle

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

— Aristotle

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

— Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary…

— Aristotle

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner,…

— Aristotle

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

— Aristotle

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

— Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

— Aristotle

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

— Aristotle

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the…

— Aristotle

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what…

— Aristotle

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of…

— Aristotle

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest,…

— Aristotle

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but…

— Aristotle

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those…

— Aristotle

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they…

— Aristotle

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the…

— Aristotle

Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the…

— Aristotle

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit…

— Aristotle

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five…

— Aristotle

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

— Aristotle

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

— Aristotle

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as…

— Aristotle

Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of…

— Aristotle

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the…

— Aristotle

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

— Aristotle

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to…

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of…

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

— Aristotle

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the…

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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as…

— Aristotle