Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.