The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
AristotleTruth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
AristotleThe habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
AristotleThe form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.
AristotleA government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
AristotleThe soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)
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