Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
AristotleWhatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
AristotleConcerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
AristotleIt is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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