Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.