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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

High thoughts must have high language.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

The one knowing what is useful, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

The wisest of the wise may err.