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- It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
- Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), First Olynthiac
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
- Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), On Leveling All Things
- He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), The Great Supreme
- Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.
- Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), On Tolerance
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