Aristotle

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Aristotle

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency…

Aristotle

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

Aristotle

So while a thing in a finite time cannot come in contact with things quantitatively infinite, it can come in contact with things infinite in respect of divisibility: for in this sense the time itself is also infinite.

Aristotle

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

Aristotle

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Aristotle

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Aristotle