Aristotle

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Aristotle

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.

Aristotle

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Aristotle

It’s the fastest who gets paid, and it’s the fastest who gets laid.

Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action – this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.

Aristotle

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Aristotle