Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.
AristotleThe structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disยญturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
AristotleIt is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
AristotleOf actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
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