About Aristotle: Aristotle is in his debt."
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)
The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.
And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely cha...
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to th...
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.
