If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle Government
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle History
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle Wisdom
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle Religion
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle Happiness
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle Happiness
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle Respect