Mar 13, 2019 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
Phalinus, messenger from Persian King Artaxerxes, demands that the Persians (who had fought with Cyrus, now dead, against Artaxerxes) put down their arms. Xenophon responds: “Phalinus, at this moment, as you see for yourself, we have no other possessions save arms and...
Dec 19, 2018 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“Now we have said generally that the man with this virtue will associate with people in the right way [in gatherings and in social life]; but it is by reference to what is honorable and expedient that he will aim at not giving pain or at contributing pleasure. For he...
Dec 12, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“He ate just enough food to make eating a pleasure, and he was so ready for his food that he found appetite the best sauce.” “He resisted without difficulty the common temptation to exceed the limit of satiety; and he advised those who could not do likewise to avoid...
Nov 28, 2018 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“Socrates’ own conversation was ever of human matters. Investigating what is pious, what is impious; what is beautiful, what is ugly; what is just, what is unjust; what is prudence, what is madness; what is courage, what is cowardice; what is a state, what is a...
Aug 8, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics G.K. Chesterton said that either way you fall off a tight rope,...
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