“Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.”
Source: Politics
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“Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
Source: Poetics
“In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.”
“They should rule who are able to rule best.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.”
“Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”
Source: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
“Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”
Source: Problems ...
“The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.”
“The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
Source: Politics
Source: Politics
Source: The Politics and Economics of Aristotle
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.”
“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”
“A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.”
“In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action”
Source: Poetics
“The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.”
Source: Poetics
“Law is order, and good law is good order.”
Source: Politics