Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
AristotleThe body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
AristotleVirtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
AristotleThe error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education
AristotleTo be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
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