“A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.”
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The Essential Aristotle
This compilation brings together essential writings of Aristotle, offering readers a concise yet profound understanding of his intellectual legacy. It includes extracts from his major treatises, providing a glimpse into his logical reasoning, empirical observations, and philosophical theories that have influenced Western thought for centuries. more
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“Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.”
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
“As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.”
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
“That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
Source: Politics
“Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.”
“When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics