Author of quotes: Aristotle

Sensual attraction is either not a goal at all, or it is for the sake of friendship. After all, other drives and arts are exactly the same.

In other senses, man is inferior to many animals, and as for touch, he far surpasses them in the subtleties of this feeling. That is why man is the most intelligent of all living beings. This is also evident from the fact that in the human race giftedness and ungrowth depend on this organ of feeling and on no other. Indeed, people with a dense body are not gifted with a mind, while people with a soft body are gifted with a mind.

A person outside society is either a god or a beast.

Rhetoric is the ability to find possible ways of persuasion about each given subject.

In the darkest moments of our lives, you should try to see the light.

Happiness is the activity of the soul in the fullness of virtue.

There are three types of persuasion methods provided by speech: some of them are determined by the speaker's disposition, others - by this or that mood of the listener, and others - by the speech itself with its true or imaginary persuasiveness.

We are what we do all the time. Perfection, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

One who has not learned to obey cannot be a good leader.

Surprise prompts people to philosophize.

The sign of an educated mind is the ability to assimilate thought without taking it as truth.

Power over free people is more beautiful and more in keeping with virtue than dominion over slaves.

Happiness is attainable through the realization of one's potentialities.

Where there is no rule of law, there is no place for any form of government.