• Categories
  • Aristotle Quotes   1272
  • Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes
  • In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Art Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Justice Quotes , Stronger Quotes