Aristotle

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Aristotle

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Aristotle

For nobility is excellence of race.

Aristotle

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

Aristotle

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Aristotle

For the activity of the mind is life.

Aristotle

For the beginning is thought to be more than half of the whole, and many of the questions we ask are cleared up by it.

Aristotle

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

Aristotle

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

Aristotle