Political literature · Philosophical literatureMan is by nature a political animal.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 8.7
Political literature · Philosophical literatureNo tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 8.1
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe basis of a democratic state is liberty.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 8.1
Political literature · Philosophical literatureWhere 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.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 7.2
Philosophical literatureThis only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.AgathonAristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC★ 7.1
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 5.7
Scientific literatureIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.Aristotle350 BC★ 5.6
Political literature · Philosophical literatureNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 4.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureWell begun is half done.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 4.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe guest will judge better of a feast than a cook.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 4.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureEven when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 4.0
Political literature · Philosophical literatureFor 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.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 3.9
Scientific literatureTime crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.AristotlePhysics · 350 BC★ 2.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureIn revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 2.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they might be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 2.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureHe 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.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 2.3
Scientific literatureThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle350 BC★ 2.2
Political literature · Philosophical literatureIt 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.AristotlePolitics · 350 BC★ 2.2
Philosophical literatureMen are good in but one way, but bad in many.AristotleThe Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC★ 1.6
Scientific literatureIf purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that-agent and patient at once.AristotlePhysics · 350 BC★ 1.3
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