Words&Dirt

“The person lacking self-restraint is like a city that votes for all that it ought to vote for and has serious laws, yet it makes use of none of them.” ––Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins, Book 7, Chapter 10   “History is a foreign country, and the old are […]

“Brutishness is a lesser thing than vice, even though it is more frightening, for the better part [of the soul] has not been ruined in the case of a brute animal, as it has been in a human being who is vicious; rather, the brute animal does not have that better part.  It is similar, […]