Aristotle

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Aristotle

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Aristotle

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

Aristotle

The good of the individual by himself is certainly desirable enough, but that of a nation and of cities is nobler and more divine.

Aristotle

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Aristotle

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Aristotle