It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
AristotleFor both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
AristotleWhen the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
AristotleIt is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
AristotleIt is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
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