The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleThe shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
AristotleThe line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
AristotleOur virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Aristotle