“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.”
“The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.”
“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.”
“All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“There must be in prudence also some master virtue.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students
“The best things are placed between extremes.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”