Aristotle

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Aristotle

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

Aristotle

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.

Aristotle

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Aristotle

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things… and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Aristotle

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Aristotle

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what’s difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

Aristotle