{"author":"Aristotle","author_id":"Aristotle","total_quotes":261,"quotes":[{"text":"We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["immortality","man"],"id":447,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["life","man","grace "],"id":1350,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...","author":"Aristotle","tags":["free-will"],"id":6223,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"To enjoy the things we ought  and to hate the things we ought  has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["character","personality"],"id":8563,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["activity","amusement","ethics","philosophy","relaxation","work"],"id":8886,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"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.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["best","democracy","government "],"id":11957,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Happiness depends upon ourselves.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["self","reliance"],"id":11988,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["justice","man","law "],"id":12470,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["companionship"],"id":14209,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["men","better","special "],"id":14457,"author_id":"Aristotle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":261,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}