Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
Those who act receive the prizes.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in ‘Timaeus’ is different from what he says in his so-called ‘unwritten teachings.’
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
All things are full of gods.
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one’s highest potentials.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
Whether we will philosophize or we won’t philosophize, we must philosophize.
A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.