But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his… — 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
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — 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
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
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. — 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
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
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. — 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
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
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him… — 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
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — 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
