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.
AristotleSo that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
AristotleThere are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
AristotleA good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
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