Aristotle

Αριστοτέλης (Aristotelēs; Aristotle) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was a Greek thinker and scientist.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Sourced quotes

• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."    

Simple: Someone who does not let fear stop him will really be free.

• "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

Simple: Someone who does not let his desires stop him seems to me to have a stronger mind (less fear) than someone who does not let his enemies stop him.

• "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."    

Simple: In every thing of nature, there is something to make a person wonder and feel good.

• "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

Simple: When a person has bad luck, the person finds out which of their friends are not really friends.

• "How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms."

Simple: It is a large number of arguments that the people arguing could have made smaller into just a small number of sentences, if they had not been afraid to take the words they were using and explain the meaning of each word.

Other websites

• Aristotle on Wikipedia
• Aristotle on Wikimedia Commons
• Works by Aristotle on the English Wikisource