Aristotle

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Aristotle

As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive ‘the good life’ or ‘doing well’ to be the same thing as ‘being happy.’

Aristotle

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Aristotle

But to be constantly asking ‘What is the use of it?’ is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.

Aristotle

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Aristotle

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.

Aristotle

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Aristotle