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Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.7

Hope is a waking dream.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 8.1

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

One soul dwelling in two bodies.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Biography · Historical literature

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 8.1

One swallow does not make a spring.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 8.1

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 7.2

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 5.7

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Politics · 335 BC

★ 5.7

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Rhetoric · 322 BC

★ 5.7

Scientific literature

350 BC

★ 5.6

Make war that we may live in peace.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.9

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 4.9

The soul is in a way all existing things.

On the Soul · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Well begun is half done.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

The guest will judge better of a feast than a cook.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Wit is educated insolence.

Rhetoric · 322 BC

★ 4.0

Therefore, the good of man must be the goal of the science of politics.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.0

The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.0

Biography · Philosophical literature

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 4.0

Biography · Historical literature

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 4.0

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Essay · Philosophical literature

Seneca, On the Tranquility of the Mind · 60

★ 4.0

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 4.0

For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 3.9

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 3.9

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue... Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 3.9

Beauty is a gift of God.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.4

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.

350 BC

★ 2.3

Scientific literature

Physics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they might be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Scientific literature

350 BC

★ 2.2

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.2

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.