Quotes from Aristotle

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Aquellos que educan bien a los niños deberían ser más honorados que los que los producen; los primeros solo les dan la vida, los segundos el arte de vivir bien (Aristóteles)

Pretože básnici sú tej samej prirodzenosti ako my, najpresved?ivejÅ¡ie pôsobia tí, ktorých ovládajú nejaké váÅ¡ne; pobúrený buráca a rozhnevaný sa hnevá najpravdivejÅ¡ie.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La habilidad de exponer una idea es tan importante como la idea en sí misma (Aristóteles)

Men may be bad in many ways, But good in one alone.

But of Reason this too does evidently partake, as we have said: for instance, in the man of self-control it obeys Reason: and perhaps in the man of perfected self-mastery, or the brave man, it is yet more obedient; in them it agrees entirely with the Reason.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

Moreover, he who would place the supreme power in mind, would place it in God and the laws; but he who entrusts man with it, gives it to a wild beast, for such his appetites sometimes make him; for passion influences those who are in power, even the very best of men: for which reason law is reason without desire.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

As for the plea, that a man did not know that habits are produced from separate acts of working, we reply, such ignorance is a mark of excessive stupidity.

A man who makes money from apparent but unreal wisdom

The reason for their original use of the trochaic tetrameter was that their poetry was satyric and more connected with dancing than it now is. As soon, however, as a spoken part came in, nature herself found the appropriate metre. The iambic, we know, is the most speakable of metres, as is shown by the fact that we very often fall into it in conversation, whereas we rarely talk hexameters, and only when we depart from the speaking tone of voice.

The eighth and last is for small actions, from one to five drachma's, or a little more; for these ought also to be legally determined, but not to be brought before the whole body of the judges.

But Justice, it must be observed, is a mean state not after the same manner as the forementioned virtues, but because it aims at producing the mean, while Injustice occupies both the extremes.

M?c tiêu lá»›n nh?t c?a ??i ng??i là s?ng Ä'úng vá»›i ti?m n?ng c?a b?n thân

Hippodamus, the son of Euruphon a Milesian, contrived the art of laying out towns, and separated the Pireus. This man was in other respects too eager after notice, and seemed to many to live in a very affected manner, with his flowing locks and his expensive ornaments, and a coarse warm vest which he wore, not only in the winter, but also in the hot weather.

By choiceworthy in themselves are meant those from which nothing is sought beyond the act of Working: and of this kind are thought to be the actions according to Virtue, because doing what is noble and excellent is one of those things which are choiceworthy for their own sake alone.

It was only at a late point in its progress that a chorus of comedians was officially granted by the archon; they used to be mere volunteers.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Nor was he less blamable for the manner in which he constituted the ephori; for these magistrates take cognisance of things of the last importance, and yet they are chosen out of the people in general; so that it often happens that a very poor person is elected to that office, who, from that circumstance, is easily bought.

Shepherds say too that it makes a difference to the production of females and the production of males not only if mating occurs during north winds or south winds, but |767a10| also if while copulating the animals look south or north. So small a thing, they say, will sometimes shift the balance, becoming a cause of cold or heat, and these a cause in generation.