Quotes from Aristotle

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is...

It is not easy for a generous person to grow rich, since he is ready to spend, not to take or keep, and honors wealth for the sake of giving, not for itself. Indeed, that is why fortune is denounced, because those who most deserve to grow rich actually do so least.

For we don't wish to know what bravery is but to be brave, not what justice is but to be just, just as we wish to be in health rather than to know what health is

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Learning and wonder are also usually pleasant. For wonder is a form of desire† and so the object of one's wonder is desirable, and learning is a form of restoring one's natural condition.*

Há, enfim, pura oligarquia se o Senado ou alguma outra Assembleia elege seus membros, se o filho sucede ao pai e se esta associação é senhora das leis.

Que no existe ningún otro sentido aparte de los cinco 424b 22 —me refiero a vista, oído, olfato, gusto y tacto—

Law . . . has the power that compels; and law is reason that proceeds from a sort of prudence and understanding. . . . [P]eople become hostile to an individual human being who opposes their impulses, even if he is correct in opposing them, whereas a law's prescription of what is decent is not burdensome.

Com toda certeza, os antigos tiranos originaram-se dos demagogos.

Let us now turn to their circumstances and their victims. People do wrong, then, when they think that the deed can be done, and can be done by them — which is to say that they think either† (a) they can get away with it, or (b) that if they are caught they will avoid punishment, or (c) that if they are punished the penalty paid by themselves or those they care for will be less than their profits.

Las diferencias entre los tribunales sólo pueden recaer sobre tres puntos: su personal, sus atribuciones, su modo de formación.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

and this is a union which is formed, not of deliberate purpose, but because, in common with other animals and with plants, mankind have a natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves)

For political science does not make men, but takes them from nature and uses them; and nature provides them with food from different elements of earth, air, or sea.

On imagination- "that in virtue of which an image occurs in us" In other words... Imagination is a faculty of the soul

Whereas the Great-minded man despises on good grounds (for he forms his opinions truly), but the mass of men do it at random.

Thus women's secrets I've surveyed And let them see how curiously they're made, And that, tho' they of different sexes be, Yet in the whole they are the same as we. For those that have the strictest searchers been, Find women are but men turned outside in; And men, if they but cast their eyes about, May find they're women with their inside out.

to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general

All agree that the just in distributions must accord with some sort of worth, but what they call worth is not the same; supporters of democracy say it is free citizenship, some supporters of oligarchy say it is wealth, others good birth, while supporters of aristocracy say it is virtue.

Every science seeks certain principles and causes for each of its objects—e.g. medicine and gymnastics and each of the other sciences, whether productive or mathematical. For each of these marks off a certain class of things for itself and busies itself about this as about something existing and real—not however qua real; the science that does this is another distinct from these.