Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.