Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 384 Bc Death: 322 Bc
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully..
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It mu….
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person..
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize..
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
We are what we continually do..
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future.
Imagination is a sort of faint perception..
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life..
Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much..
Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict wit….
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just..
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time..
You are what you repeatedly do.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friend….
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers..
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust ….
Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize..
You are what you do repeatedly..
Anybody can get hit over the head..
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal..