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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little (Aristotle Quotes)
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge (Aristotle Quotes)
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully (Aristotle Quotes)
Moral virtue is... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle (Aristotle Quotes)
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil (Aristotle Quotes)
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means (Aristotle Quotes)
Purpose... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts (Aristotle Quotes)
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward (Aristotle Quotes)
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible (Aristotle Quotes)
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked (Aristotle Quotes)
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous (Aristotle Quotes)
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant (Aristotle Quotes)
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason (Aristotle Quotes)
He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train (Aristotle Quotes)
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many (Aristotle Quotes)
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand (Aristotle Quotes)
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever (Aristotle Quotes)
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it (Aristotle Quotes)
A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover (Aristotle Quotes)
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish... but in forming opinons we are not free (Aristotle Quotes)
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it (Aristotle Quotes)
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute (Aristotle Quotes)
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up (Aristotle Quotes)
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member (Aristotle Quotes)
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government (Aristotle Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number (Aristotle Quotes)
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens (Aristotle Quotes)
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide (Aristotle Quotes)
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers (Aristotle Quotes)