Quotes from Aristotle

Pero a todas las cosas de que puede disponer el hombre, puede darse un destino bueno o malo, y la riqueza es una de estas cosas.

Character in a play is that which reveals the moral purpose of the agents, ie, the sort of thing they seek or avoid, where that is not obvious— hence there is no room for character in a speech on a purely indifferent subject.

Komedya, ortalamadan daha kötü karakterleri, tragedya ise ortalamadan daha iyi olan karakterleri taklit etmek isterler.

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

La justicia encierra y comprende en sí misma todas las virtudes, porque la justicia es la práctica de la virtud perfecta, y su perfección reside en el hecho de quien la ejerce y la posee; éste no lo hace sólo respecto de sí mismo, sino también respecto de los demás

All those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics.

Democracy, he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; oligarchy a government not of the few but of the rich.

This is the main question, with what activity one's leisure is filled.

Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

Of all plots and actions the epeisodic are the worst. I call a plot 'epeisodic' in which the episodes or acts succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence. Bad poets compose such pieces by their own fault, good poets, to please the players; for, as they write show pieces for competition, they stretch the plot beyond its capacity, and are often forced to break the natural continuity.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

If the pleasure is immediate and the pain distant, or if the profit is immediate and the punishment distant. This is the kind of thing that moves weak-willed people, and there is no human impulse that is not liable to moral weakness.

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Nadie puede trabar amistad con otro si no ha experimentado la benevolencia

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

there is no gain in being persuaded not to be hot or in pain or hungry or the like, since we shall experience these feelings none the less.

No es posible o no es fácil remover por medio de la razón lo que está profundamente arraigado en el carácter

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

By a male animal we mean that which generates in another, and by a female that which generates in itself.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it