“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse”
― Apology
― Apology
“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
― Apology
― Apology
Classics and the Western Canon
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