Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. "

Related Quotes:

" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. "

" The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. "

" Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. "

" In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. "

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. "

" No one loves the man whom he fears. "

" Change in all things is sweet. "

" The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. "

" Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. "

" The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. "

" 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. "

" Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. "

" The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. "

" No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. "

" Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. "

" Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. "

" The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. "

" The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. "

" All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. "

" Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. "

" The end of labor is to gain leisure. "

" I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. "

" The gods too are fond of a joke. "

" Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "

" Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. "