Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
justice judging office
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
government office discipline
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
law government office
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.
law organization office
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
men office want
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
office long easy
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
dwelling reply single soul
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
friend greek-philosopher soul true
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
accomplish action complete imitation incidents itself pity tragedy
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.
capable common faculty man possess though
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
above advice greek-philosopher honor piety requires truth
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
breeding cases expressed loud mostly musical noisy others utter
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
current either expression imitate imitator necessity objects ought painter rare terms three vehicle
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.