Aristotle Quotes

“to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward”

― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

topic:death pain

“Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:happiness government action

“It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:knowledge music teaching

“Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:freedom equality democracy respect

“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.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:freedom government equality democracy

“Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:heart passion law

“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:men good

“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:power poverty equality democracy

“Hence in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:power fight

“the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

topic:reality poetry

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