Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the read more

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if read more

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, read more

There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.