Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — 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
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it… — 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
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as… — 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
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute… — 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
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of… — 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
