The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — 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
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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
Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — 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
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — 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
![“Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/29b/aristotle-78_arms_those-who-have-the-command-of-the-arms-i_401262.jpg)
