“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
― Nicomachean Ethics
― Nicomachean Ethics
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
Brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
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