Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
We make war that we may live in peace.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.