Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5: The Peripatetics, "Aristotle," 9. |
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
AristotleIt is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
AristotleRevolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
AristotleSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleThe basis of a democratic state is liberty.
AristotleTo perceive is to suffer.
AristotleAll men naturally desire knowledge.
AristotleThe flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect. It is too exciting.
AristotleThat body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
AristotleWe must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
AristotleThe best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
AristotleMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleMan, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
AristotleAgain, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
AristotleThe good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
AristotleThe basis of a democratic state is liberty .
AristotleLaw is order, and good law is good order.
AristotleOne would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
AristotleIf 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
AristotleHe who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
AristotleThe law is reason unaffected by desire.
AristotleMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleFriendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleHomer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
AristotleWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious.
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