+ The basis of a democratic state is liberty Read explanation Author, July 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Aristotle, Democracy, Liberty, State, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Diversity, Growth, Humility, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. Author, September 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Aristotle, Happiness, Prosperity, Virtue, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Choice, Rightness, Virtue, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Believability, Imagination, Reality, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Aristotle, Crime, Excess, Scarcity, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Determinism, Irreversibility, Limitation, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
+ Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Community, Fulfillment, Purpose, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself. Jean Craighead George
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France