Aristotle Ought Quotations

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.