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  • Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

  • Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

  • Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

  • It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

    Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.78, Cambridge University Press
  • For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

    Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library
  • There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster
  • The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  • It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics
  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  • The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

  • It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

  • When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle
  • As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

    Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press
  • Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

    Aristotle (1812). “Works”, p.626
  • It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

  • Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

  • When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle
  • It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

  • Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster
  • The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

  • Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

    Aristotle (1890). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Tr. with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions: Also, The Poetic of Aristotle, Literally Tr., with a Selection of Notes, an Analysis, and Questions”
  • Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.106, Aristotle
  • The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

  • Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

  • Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press
  • That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

    "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,
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    Aristotle

    • Born: 384 BC
    • Died: 322 BC
    • Occupation: Philosopher