Aristotle

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Aristotle

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

Aristotle

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

Aristotle

where the laws are not authoritative demagogues arise. For the populace becomes a monarch when it turns from many into a single composite, since the many are in authority not as particular persons but all together.

Aristotle

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Aristotle

Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.

Aristotle

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.

Aristotle

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?

Aristotle

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Aristotle