Quotes By Aristotle BACK
- Hope is a waking dream.
- What is a friend? A
- Educating the mind without educating
- It is the mark of
- Knowing yourself is the beginning
- No great mind has ever
- Since the things we do
- Between husband and wife friendship
- No democracy can exist unless
- Most persons think that a
- Aristotle said: "Evil brings men
- Emotions of any kind can
- We ought not to listen
- Those that know, do. Those
- A proper wife should be
- You should never think without
- The unfortunate need people who
- Moral qualities are so constituted
- Revolutions are effected in two
- We become just by the
- There's many a slip
- Metaphor is halfway between the
- A government which is composed
- There are, then, three states
- The investigation of the truth
- To die in order to
- There is an error common
- All that one gains by
- The brave man, if he
- Life is only meaningful when
- Tragedy is an imitation not
- A constitution is the arrangement
- To say of what is
- Man is by nature a
- We give up leisure in
- The state or political community,
- Praise invariably implies a reference
- For any two portions of
- The line has magnitude in
- He is courageous who endures
- Between friends there is no
- Virtue makes us aim at
- The happy life is regarded
- Great is the good fortune
- Beauty depends on size as
- In the many forms of
- We ought, so far as
- A very populous city can
- Find the good. Seek the
- As for the story, whether
- Teachers, who educate children, deserve
- While most of those who
- Peace is more difficult than
- The hardest victory is the
- The man who is truly
- The light of the day
- The saying of Protagoras is
- For this reason poetry is
- The intention makes the crime.
- Hence both women and children
- Cruel is the strife of
- Our youth should also be
- The greatest of all pleasures
- Purpose ... is held to be
- The student of politics therefore
- Youth is easily deceived because
- The habits we form from
- Persuasion is effected through the
- It is true, indeed, that
- All men by nature desire
- Now that practical skills have
- No tyrant need fear till
- We have next to consider
- That which is common to
- It has been handed down
- We must as second best,
- It is also in the
- Men create gods after their
- One kind of justice is
- Of old, the demagogue was
- If everything when it occupies
- The goal of war is
- In practical matters the end
- What we know is not
- Yellow colored objects appear to
- There is always something new
- Men regard it as their
- Even that some people try
- Boundaries don't protect rivers,
- By 'life,' we mean a
- I have gained this from
- You can never learn anything
- Only an armed people can
- The greatest thing by far
- Law is order, and good
- Friendship is a thing most
- Worthless persons appointed to have
- A city is composed of
- The only stable principle of
- Wretched, ephemeral race, children of
- Of ill temper there are
- Where perception is, there also
- Equality consists in the same
- Art is identical with a
- Men cling to life even
- Bad people...are in conflict
- The greatest victory is over
- I will not allow the
- Yes the truth is that
- Think as wise men do,
- Whatever we learn to do,
- It is easier to get
- It is simplicity that makes
- The virtue of justice consists
- And, speaking generally, passion seems
- So it is naturally with
- I call that law universal,
- He overcomes a stout enemy
- A change in the shape
- Today you can start forming
- To be ignorant of motion
- Politicians also have no leisure,
- this element the seat of
- If thinking is like perceiving,
- It is our choice of
- Quite often good things have
- Those that deem politics beneath
- Happiness belongs to the self
- If the poor, for example,
- The high minded man must
- Women should marry when they
- We should venture on the
- Where it is in our
- It is clear, then, that
- Let us be well persuaded
- There is nothing strange in
- And inasmuch as the great
- No notice is taken of
- We do not act rightly
- Marriage is like retiring as
- The bad man is continually
- A good style must, first
- The ideal man is his
- In a polity, each citizen
- The worst thing about slavery
- Jealousy is both reasonable and
- A state is not a
- Excellence or virtue is a
- Art is a higher type
- People of superior refinement and
- In cases of this sort,
- Even when laws have been
- We, on the other hand,
- Everything is done with a
- Meanness is incurable; it cannot
- A promise made must be
- That in the soul which
- By myth I mean the
- It is evidently equally foolish
- When quarrels and complaints arise,
- A friend is a second
- How many a dispute could
- The soul becomes prudent by
- The generality of men are
- Fortune favours the bold.
- Gentleness is the ability to
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude
- We make war that we
- The good lawgiver should inquire
- With the truth, all given
- Laughter is a bodily exercise,
- Reason is a light that
- Excellence is never an accident.
- The heart is the perfection
- All art, all education, can
- A man becomes a friend
- Without friends no one would
- The weak are always anxious
- Worms are the intestines of
- It is not once nor
- No one would choose a
- In the first place, then,
- Humor is the only test
- If they do not share
- Young men have strong passions
- Your happiness depends on you
- Wit is educated insolence.
- Man perfected by society is
- Talent is culture with insolence.
- People generally despise where they
- Now what is just and
- It has been well said
- A period may be defined
- The ideal man takes joy
- Man's best friend is
- In all things of nature
- There is nothing grand or
- Knowing what is right does
- One may go wrong in
- Nor need it cause surprise
- The guest will judge better
- When couples have children in
- The only stable state is
- There is a cropping time
- There must be in prudence
- Change in all things is
- Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure
- It is our actions and
- Moral virtue is a mean . . .
- Justice is Equality...but equality
- If you string together a
- Purpose is a desire for
- Time crumbles things; everything grows
- For imitation is natural to
- Definition of tragedy: A hero
- When the citizens at large
- It is easy to perform
- We must no more ask
- Nature creates nothing without a
- We can't learn without
- The true nature of anything
- A right election can only
- All things are full of
- The physician himself, if sick,
- The coward calls the brave
- All are agreed that the
- A courageous person is one
- We work to earn our
- Every wicked man is in
- Money is a guarantee that
- Virtue also depends on ourselves.
- To know what virtue is
- Plato is dear to me,
- Courage is the mother of
- Laws, when good, should be
- The young are heated by
- The so called Pythagoreans, who
- In order to be effective
- Even the best of men
- The vigorous are no better
- Here and elsewhere we shall
- The society that loses its
- Man is a goal seeking
- So the good has been
- To give away money is
- Friends are much better tried
- If the state cannot be
- For through wondering human beings
- This world is inescapably linked
- That judges of important causes
- It is likely that unlikely
- No state will be well
- The most perfect political community
- The family is the association
- All men agree that a
- What we expect, that we
- It is impossible, or not
- All learning is derived from
- Nature does nothing in vain.
- i was not alone when
- Adventure is worthwhile.
- Nature herself, as has been
- The moral virtues, then, are
- Music has the power of
- Happiness comes from theperfect practice
- The structural unity of the
- A good man may make
- Love well, be loved and
- The majority of mankind would
- Now, the causes being four,
- Just as a royal rule,
- Irrational passions would seem to
- It is not easy for
- Excellence, then, is a state
- There are no experienced young
- Happiness is something final and
- You are what you do
- It would be wrong to
- Evil draws men together.
- Therefore the good man ought
- Every virtue is a mean
- So, if we must give
- Music has a power of
- PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by
- Wit is well bred insolence.
- A science must deal with
- All flatterers are mercenary, and
- A state is an association
- It is clearly better that
- Patience is so like fortitude
- The whole is more than
- For often, when one is
- Youth loves honor and victory
- The man is free we
- A gentleman is not disturbed
- The life of children, as
- And of course, the brain
- In most constitutional states the
- Happiness lies in virtuous activity,
- The entire preoccupation of the
- Plato is my friend, but
- Some believe it to be
- The virtue of a faculty
- The ridiculous is produced by
- We must be neither cowardly
- One who faces and who
- A friend is another I.
- Legislative enactments proceed from men
- Courage is the first of
- Virtue means doing the right
- For all men do their
- Human beings are curious by
- Happiness, then, is co extensive
- Civil confusions often spring from
- Nowadays, for the sake of
- For example, justice is considered
- Pleasure in the job puts
- It is the repeated performance
- In everything, it is no
- The first principle of all
- In inventing a model we
- While those whom devotion to
- Education and morals will be
- Earthworms are the intenstines of
- Of actions some aim at
- Xenophanes states that the fire
- We should behave to our
- Man first begins to philosophize
- It is through wonder that
- Shame is an ornament to
- Our account does not rob
- All teaching and all intellectual
- And this activity alone would
- And it is characteristic of
- Every man should be responsible
- I count him braver who
- The democrats think that as
- Whether if soul did not
- If one way be better
- So we must lay it
- It is evident, then, that
- People never know each other
- Such an event is probable
- Happiness does not consist in
- In this way the structure
- Inasmuch as every family is
- We become just by performing
- If things do not turn
- It is absurd to hold
- For contemplation is both the
- Neither old people nor sour
- Men must be able to
- The pleasures arising from thinking
- All men naturally desire knowledge.
- At his best, man is
- Thus it is thought that
- There are still two forms
- It seems that ambition makes
- The self indulgent man craves
- There are branches of learning
- It is no easy task
- Not every action or emotion
- For those who possess and
- Perhaps here we have a
- Property should be in a
- Where your talents and the
- As our acts vary, our
- If there is any kind
- For it is not true,
- Wicked me obey from fear;
- The chief forms of beauty
- You'll understand what life
- Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing
- A man who examines each
- Salt water when it turns
- Of governments there are said
- Law is mind without reason.
- Mothers are fonder than fathers
- It is no part of
- To run away from trouble
- Happiness seems to require a
- When Pleasure is at the
- To the size of the
- Personal beauty is a greater
- It is better for a
- Ancient laws remain in force
- We ought to be able
- Happiness is prosperity combined with
- All proofs rest on premises.
- Of the tyrant, spies and
- Greatness of spirit is to
- Neither by nature, then, nor
- No one chooses what does
- There are two distinctive peculiarities
- Thou wilt find rest from
- You are what you repeatedly
- To be conscious that we
- To appreciate the beauty of
- In educating the young we
- Thus every action must be
- One citizen differs from another,
- Those who educate children well
- Friendship is communion.
- All paid jobs absorb and
- Inferiors revolt in order that
- The roots of education are
- The principle aim of gymnastics
- All food must be capable
- A good style must have
- It is a part of
- Whatsoever that be within us
- A tragedy is a representation
- If every tool, when ordered,
- Justice is the loveliest and
- It concerns us to know
- The end of labor is
- Quid quid movetur ab alio
- Rightness in our choice of
- Conscientious and careful physicians allocate
- Rhetoric may be defined as
- Leisure of itself gives pleasure
- The greatest crimes are caused
- To give a satisfactory decision
- For both excessive and insufficient
- My best friend is the
- The real difference between democracy
- it is rather the case
- A goal gets us motivated,
- There is nothing unequal as
- Anyone who has no need
- Nature makes nothing incomplete, and
- There also appears to be
- Virtue is the golden mean
- Temperance and bravery, then, are
- It is in justice that
- But a man's best
- There is no great genius
- The duty of rhetoric is
- He who hath many friends
- The soul is the form
- Let us first understand the
- For knowing is spoken of
- Time is the measurable unit
- It [Justice] is complete virtue
- The senses are gateways to
- Nothing is what rocks dream
- Happiness depends on ourselves.
- Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a
- The ensouled is distinguished from
- The soul is the cause
- The proof that the state
- It is more difficult to
- It is just that we
- No one will dare maintain
- In the perfect state the
- Patience s bitter, but it'
- The good of man is
- Melancholy men of all others
- When you ask a dumb
- The honors and rewards fall
- Nature operates in the shortest
- Man by Nature desires to
- A friend is simply one
- There is an ideal of
- Education is the best provision
- The true end of tragedy
- You will never do anything
- Teenagers these days are out
- Indeed, we may go further
- Learning is not child's
- He who has never learned
- Whereas happiness is the highest
- All who have meditated on
- Those who assert that the
- The End is included among
- Money was intended to be
- The most important relationship we
- Think as the wise men
- Equality is of two kinds,
- Personal beauty requires that one
- Therefore, the good of man
- For good is simple, evil
- Soul and body, I suggest
- Not to know of what
- A tyrant must put on
- The law is reason, free
- Every great genius has an
- Anything whose presence or absence
- The friendship of worthless people
- Concerning the generation of animals
- In part, art completes what
- Happiness is a thing honored
- Happiness is an activity and
- If 'bounded by a surface'
- Good habits formed at youth
- When there is no middle
- Through discipline comes freedom.
- Tools may be animate as
- I seek to bring forth
- To Unlearn is as hard
- It is this simplicity that
- Masculine republics give way to
- But if nothing but soul,
- The complete man must work,
- Anybody can become angry that
- No science ever defends its
- He is his own best
- But since there is but
- Everything that depends on the
- Actions determine what kind of
- The purpose of the present
- Speeches are like babies easy
- Every realm of nature is
- When the looms spin by
- Friends hold a mirror up
- Music directly represents the passions
- Happiness is activity.
- Doubt is the beginning of
- We should aim rather at
- This body is not a
- Our virtues are voluntary (and
- To Thales the primary question
- Since the branch of philosophy
- A fool contributes nothing worth
- Imagination is a sort of
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust
- A man is the origin
- Philosophy is the science which
- The misanthrope, as an essentially
- There is simple ignorance, which
- For desire is like a
- Men become builders by building
- But it is not at
- The soul has two parts,
- Art takes nature as its
- The legislator should direct his
- The same ideas, one must
- Maybe crying is a means
- The good for man is
- One would have thought that
- Business or toil is merely
- Liars when they speak the
- In all things which have
- Happiness is the reward of
- Men are divided between those
- Good has two meanings: it
- A democracy exists whenever those
- All friendly feelings toward others
- Anything that we have to
- We can do noble acts
- Man is the metre of
- The life of theoretical philosophy
- The true nature of a
- The vices respectively fall short
- Also, that which is desirable
- But what is happiness? If
- If liberty and equality, as
- No one who desires to
- The best things are placed
- In a race, the quickest
- The right constitutions, three in
- Suppose, then, that all men
- Temperance is a mean with
- For one swallow does not
- The greater the length, the
- Some men turn every quality
- The best friend is he
- In the case of some
- God has many names, though
- Yet the true friend of
- The best way to avoid
- It is clear that there
- It is of the nature
- In painting, the most brilliant
- If a man of good
- Fine friendship requires duration rather
- What the statesman is most
- God and nature create nothing
- We are not angry with
- He who takes his fill
- The educated differ from the
- The body is most fully
- Anyone, without any great penetration,
- Republics decline into democracies and
- Injustice results as much from
- Pleasure causes us to do
- Selfishness doesn't consist in
- Those who excel in virtue
- Men acquire a particular quality
- The probable is what usually
- The happy life is thought
- Of all the varieties of
- Men pay most attention to
- If we state the function
- The virtue of the good
- The happy man . . . will be
- Most people would rather give
- In seeking for justice men
- A body in motion can
- Opinion involves belief (for without
- When you feel yourself lacking
- When you have thrown a
- Our actions determine our dispositions.
- Sophocles said he drew men
- Not to get what you
- The word is a sign
- The soul suffers when the
- It would then be most
- But is it just then
- Bring your desires down to
- A common danger unites even
- The soul of animals is
- When...we, as individuals, obey
- The least deviation from truth
- In making a speech one
- Greatness of spirit is accompanied
- A poet's object is
- If then nature makes nothing
- A man can make up
- Now the goodness that we
- Beauty is a gift of
- prudence is the virtue of
- Of mankind in general, the
- Something is infinite if, taking
- We have no evidence as
- Some vices miss what is
- True happiness flows from the
- The secret to humor is
- He then alone will strictly
- But nature flies from the
- What soon grows old? Gratitude.
- Money was established for exchange,
- Equity is that idea of
- Dignity does not consist in
- All human happiness and misery
- To be angry is easy.
- All men desire by nature
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse.
- Bravery is a mean state
- The high minded man is
- Happiness is the meaning and
- The Life of the intellect
- When several villages are united
- Man, as an originator of
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Excellence is an art won
- Governments which have a regard
- It is the active exercise
- We would have to say
- A great city is not
- The best way to teach
- Good laws, if they are
- When a draco has eaten
- One thing alone not even
- One swallow does not make
- Democracy is when the indigent,
- Moral virtue is ... a mean
- The body is at its
- In general, what is written
- For it is owing to
- But nothing is yet clear
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit
- Of means of persuading by
- Happiness is the utilization of
- Character may almost be called
- Justice is that virtue of
- All persons ought to endeavor
- There is more both of
- In poverty and other misfortunes
- Courage is a mean with
- Poetry is finer and more
- The knowledge of the soul
- Music directly imitates the passions
- Of the irrational part of
- All human actions have one
- If you would understand anything,
- The man who confers a
- What is the essence of
- Philosophy can make people sick.
- The specific excellence of verbal
- Great men are always of
- Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Great and frequent reverses can
- The perversions are as follows:
- True happiness comes from gaining
- There is more evidence to
- To enjoy the things we
- Each human being is bred
- In revolutions the occasions may
- The attainment of truth is
- A tragedy is the imitation
- Wicked men obey for fear,
- So that the lover of
- In a democracy the poor
- Nature, as we say, does
- When we deliberate it is
- The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone
- Being a father is the
- To let them share in
- A person's life persuades
- He who thus considers things
- The citizens begin by giving
- Comedy aims at representing men
- There is a foolish corner
- Obstinate people can be divided
- Friends are an aid to
- The good citizen need not
- Character is determined by choice,
- People become house builders through
- A king ruleth as he
- Error is multiform (for evil
- But the virtues we get
- We are all inclined to
- Men agree that justice in
- The energy of the mind
- The greatest virtues are those
- Anger is always concerned with
- Again, the male is by
- Therefore, even the lover of
- The art of wealth getting
- No one finds fault with
- It may be argued that
- Knowledge of the fact differs
- That rule is the better
- The avarice of mankind is
- Wishing to be friends is
- When their adventures do not
- Wise people have an inward
- Now it is evident that
- Adoration is made out of
- Our characters are the result
- To leave the number of
- hope is the dream of
- Even if you must have
- Democracy arises out of the
- If, therefore, there is any
- The man who is content
- The man with a host
- For even they who compose
- One can aim at honor
- It makes no difference whether
- We are what we frequently
- One cannot say of something
- We must speak first about
- So it is clear that
- The gods too are fond
- Everybody loves a thing more
- Friendship also seems to be
- Metaphysics is universal and is
- This much then, is clear:
- Experience has shown that it
- Friendship is two souls inhabiting
- The best tragedies are conflicts
- Again, it is possible to
- We are what we continually
- The laws are, and ought
- Young people are in a
- I say that habit's
- If there is some end
- Justice therefore demands that no
- Wicked men obey out of
- Madness is badness of spirit,
- The aim of education is
- There is also a doubt
- He who can be, and
- Everyone honors the wise.
- To perceive is to suffer.
- Wickedness is nourished by lust.
- Health is a matter of
- Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus
- Whether we call it sacrifice,
- Women who are with child
- For just as for a
- The basis of a democratic
- Now the soul of man
- All men seek one goal:
- If the hammer and the
- We are what we repeatedly
- Prudence as well as Moral
- Human good turns out to
- The beauty of the soul
- Since we think we understand
- The sun, moving as it
- We are the sum of
- The ultimate end...is not
- Hence poetry is something more
- We laugh at that which
- If happiness is activity in
- Love is the cause of
- Revolutions are not about trifles,
- Youth should be kept strangers
- Once more: there are three
- Rhetoric is useful because truth
- At first he who invented
- The intelligence consists not only
- the virtues cannot exist without
- The state comes into existence
- For what is the best
- Neither should we forget the
- Nothing in life is more
- The law does not expressly
- Those whose days are consumed
- Hippocrates is an excellent geometer
- So virtue is a purposive
- The seat of the soul
- Some men are just as
- For pleasure is a state
- Female cats are very Lascivious,
- The mass of mankind are
- Character is that which reveals
- If something's bound to
- The soul is characterized by
- A likely impossibility is always
- Well begun is half done.
- What it lies in our
- If you prove the cause,
- Character is made by many
- Perfect friendship is the friendship
- That which is excellent endures.
- But also philosophy is not
- There is no genius who
- Men create the gods after
- Since music has so much
- If the art of ship
- The only way to achieve
- Democracy is the form of
- Victory is plesant, not only
- Just as at the Olympic
- Even if we could suppose
- As the pleasures of the
- There are some jobs in
- We may assume the superiority
- But then in what way
- That body is heavier than
- The good man is he
- We must not feel a
- Anybody can get hit over
- Happiness is the settling of
- The young are permanently in
- A state of the soul
- For well being and health,
- Happiness, then, is found to
- The things best to know
- Those who have the command
- Men become richer not only
- We are better able to
- The proof that you know
- All communication must lead to
- If you see a man
- That which most contributes to
- The antidote for fifty enemies
- A friend of everyone is
- Where the laws are not
- For as the interposition of
- It is well to be
- In a word, acts of
- Remember that time slurs over
- Youth should stay away from
- The science we are after
- Accordingly, the poet should prefer
- We deliberate not about ends,
- A man is his own
- In the works of Nature,
- Truth is a remarkable thing.
- All that we do is
- Happiness does not lie in
- 1 is not prime, by
- If, then, there is some
- At the intersection where your
- It is not the possessions
- The soul consists of two
- People do not naturally become
- The beginning of reform is
- The least initial deviation from
- We must not listen to
- We must become just be
- For the more limited, if
- Happiness is a sort of
- The greatest thing in style
- It is unbecoming for young
- The energy or active exercise
- The most beautiful colors laid
- No man of high and
- A flatterer is a friend
- Greatness of Soul seems therefore
- It is the activity of
- Choice not chance determines your
- The physician heals, Nature makes
- The form of government is
- Art not only imitates nature,
- Whether we will philosophize or
- for we are inquiring not
- It is the characteristic of
- The science that studies the
- Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of
- It is best to rise
- It will contribute towards one'
- Fate of empires depends on
- A democracy is a government
- It is of itself that
- Thinking is different from perceiving
- Every art and every inquiry,
- The law is reason unaffected
- Happiness is a quality of
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone
- It is well said, then,
- While the faculty of sensation
- Whereas the law is passionless,
- He who is unable to
- We maintain, and have said
- All three states the Lacedaemonian,
- Be a free thinker and
- Prosperity makes friends and adversity
- They who have drunk beer,
- He who confers a benefit
- If some animals are good
- Now property is part of
- Either a beast or a
- If men are given food,
- The final cause, then, produces
- Poetry demands a man with
- Freedom is obedience to self
- A sense is what has
- The life which is best
- It is not sufficient to
- For what one has to
- Wonder implies the desire to
- Happiness is an activity of
- Demonstration is also something necessary,
- To be always seeking after
- For legislators make the citizens
- If then it be possible
- For imagining lies within our
- Man by nature wants to
- meanness is more ingrained in
- If what was said in
- Men in general desire the
- The activity of happiness must
- Two characteristic marks have above
- No excellent soul is exempt
- Pay attention to the young,
- Time past, even God is
- He who has overcome his
- The actuality of thought is
- Of the modes of persuasion
- Different men seek after happiness
- Because the rich are generally
- We have divided the Virtues
- The two qualities which chiefly
- All virtue is summed up
- Where some people are very
- He who cannot see the
- Of cases where a man
- It was through the feeling
- The greatest threat to the
- They should rule who are
- A brave man is clear
- The worst form of inequality
- When we look at the
- When people are friends, they
- While fiction is often impossible,
- A true friend is one
- The one exclusive sign of
- We cannot ... prove geometrical truths
- Try is a noisy way
- They who are to be
- The high minded man does
- For nature by the same
- There is only one condition
- He who is by nature
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they
- Happiness is the highest good
- Emotions of any kind are
- Have a definite, clear, practical
- Modesty is hardly to be
- Thus then a single harmony
- The male has more teeth
- The best political community is
- The trade of the petty
- Rising before daylight is also
- It is possible to fail
- Neither should men study war
- The souls ability to nourish
- All men are alike when
- The truly good and wise
- It is their character indeed
- Democracy arose from men's
- Distance does not break off
- Those who act receive the
- Poverty is the parent of
- It is evident that the
- Beauty is the gift of
- One has no friend who
- The angry man wishes the
- The soul never thinks without
- The first essential responsibility of
- Those who cannot bravely face
- We praise a man who
- For the lesser evil is
- These virtues are formed in
- And this lies in the
- For the real difference between
- Friends enhance our ability to
- The excellence of a thing
- Excellence is not an art.
- Our problem is not that
- Those who have been eminent
- Those who merely possess the
- If then, as we say,
- A bad man can do
- Political society exists for the
- Good moral character is not
- But the whole vital process
- Virtue is more clearly shown
- The line between lawful and
- Wit is cultured insolence.
- Prayers and sacrifices are of
- All art is concerned with
- The rattle is a toy
- Now all orators effect their
- Any change of government which
- That the equalization of property
- A whole is that which
- All men, or most men,
- A line is not made
- The greatest injustices proceed from
- Evidence from torture may be
- The true forms of government,
- If the consequences are the
- He who has conferred a
- Every community is an association
- The hand is the tool
- Those who believe that all
- Happiness is an expression of
- We assume therefore that moral
- Virtue is not merely a
- The purpose of art is
- First, have a definite, clear
- Life is full of chances
- In all well attempered governments
- What is the highest of
- That which is impossible and
- Misfortune shows those who are
- The activity of God, which
- To the sober person adventurous
- The precepts of the law
- Goodness is to do good
- Hence intellect[ual perception] is
- Men are marked from the
- Comedy has had no history,
- Shipping magnate of the 20th
- The many are more incorruptible
- A life of wealth and
- Before you heal the body
- Whereas young people become accomplished
- Moral excellence comes about as
- For though we love both
- Excellence or virtue in a
- A thing chosen always as
- Authority is no source for
- All Earthquakes and Disasters are
- The continuum is that which
- Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But
- A tragedy is that moment
- Men are swayed more by
- My lectures are published and
- Dissimilarity of habit tends more
- But obviously a state which
- Friendship is a single soul
- The appropriate age for marrige
- Men are good in but
- Happiness may be defined as
- Love is composed of a
- Those who are not angry
- To write well, express yourself
- Consider pleasures as they depart,
- It is Homer who has
- The wise man knows of
- We are masters of our
- The goodness or badness, justice
- Music imitates (represents) the passions
- Now the greatest external good
- Education is an ornament in
- Nature does nothing without a
- Nature of man is not
- If men think that a
- And so long as they
- The aim of the wise
- In [the soul] one part
- Happiness involves engagement in activities
- Rhetoric is the counterpart of
- A friend to all is
- It is not always the
- The arousing of prejudice, pity,
- No one praises happiness as
- Although it may be difficult
- The Eyes are the organs
- Life in the true sense
- The same things are best
- That which is in locomotion
- To die, and thus avoid
- He who cannot be a
- There are, then, these three
- The government of freemen is
- The difference between a learned
- We do not know a
- The blood of a goat
- The character which results from
- With respect to the requirement
- The business of every art
- Neglect of an effective birth
- Fear is pain arising from
- Today, see if you can
- What is common to many
- The life of money making
- Men come together in cities
- Happiness is at once the
- The beginning, as the proverb
- He who is to be
- The true friend of the
- In justice is all virtues
- Quality is not an act,
- Melancholy men, of all others,
- A democracy when put to
- Happiness is a certain activity
- Character gives us qualities, but
- Without virtue it is difficult
- A speaker who is attempting
- In the Laws it is
- What you have to learn
- He who sees things grow
- As to adultery, let it
- For as the eyes of
- There are three qualifications required
- Every rascal is not a
- The fool tells me his
- We are what we do.
- A good character carries with
- If purpose, then, is inherent
- Perception starts with the eye.
- Character is revealed through action.
- When the storytelling goes bad
- And yet the true creator
- What is the highest good
- Greed has no boundaries
- Aristocracy is that form of
- Education and morals make the
- The shape of the heaven
- Bad men are full of
- Humility is a flower which
- Evils draw men together.
- 95% of everything you do
- Everything necessarily is or is
- Memory is the scribe of
- Both Self restraint and Unrestraint
- A true disciple shows his
- Why do men seek honour?
- A vivid image compels the
- Bashfulness is an ornament to
- Our feelings towards our friends
- One greek city state had
- Every formed disposition of the
- Teaching is the highest form
- The virtues [moral excellence] therefore
- Finally, if nothing can be
- The same thing may have
- When you are lonely, when
- It is not easy to
- Speech is the representation of
- For we do not think
- Should a man live underground,
- There must then be a
- Happiness is essentially perfect; so
- The virtue as the art
- A young man is not
- Money originated with royalty and
- In the human species at
- For that which has become
- It is clear that those
- Philosophy begins with wonder.
- Happiness is thought to depend
- If happiness, then, is activity
- Art completes what nature cannot
- These two rational faculties may
- Criticism is something we can
- Saying the words that come
- Life cannot be lived, and
- There is honor in being
- Education begins at the level
- For suppose that every tool
- Perhaps there is some element
- No one loves the man
- Intuition is the source of
- The ultimate value of life
- Courage is the first virtue
- A man's happiness consists
- To learn is a natural