That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to… — 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
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that… — 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
