What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

— Aristotle

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

— Aristotle

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.

— Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

— Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

— Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

— Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

— Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

— Aristotle

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

— Aristotle

With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both; and if common, to what part of soul or body to appertain: further, from what cause it arises that they area tributes of animals, and whether all animals share in them both, or some partake of the one only, others of the other only, or some partake of neither and some of both.

— Aristotle