Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 384 Bc Death: 322 Bc
Law is mind without reason..
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants..
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a stat….
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good..
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be….
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer..
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædal….
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause..
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest….
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art..
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means..
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial..
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding..
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside..
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we….
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor..
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end..
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the ….
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic..
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable t….