Aristotle Quotes
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.