Quotes by Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the >>

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refu >>

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor agai >>

Quotations about Society

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. >>

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one o >>

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polis >>

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

Aristotle