For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
AristotleThe avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
AristotleWise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
AristotleSince music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
AristotleWhile most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
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