Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 384 Bc Death: 322 Bc
In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we m….
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts..
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws..
A friend is another I..
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones..
We can't learn without pain..
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune..
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male..
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties..
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against ….
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs..
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal..
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five..
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essent….
A friend to all is a friend to none..
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man..
Through discipline comes freedom..
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud..
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of wh….
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energe….