Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"The end of medical science is health; of military science, victory; of economic science, wealth."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book I, i) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Mo Tzu

Mo Tzu (Chinese philosopher and religious leader, c. 5th century)

"Even in the deep valleys, the broad forests, the dark and distant places where no one lives, you must not fail to act with sincerity, for the ghosts and spirits will see you even there!"

• From the Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963).

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 CE)

"These women are called valkyries. They are sent by Odin to every battle, where they choose which men are to die and they determine who has the victory."

• From The Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jesse Byock (Penguin Classics, 2005).

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Pope Gregory I

Pope Saint Gregory the Great (540-604)

"Raise the moral standards of your subjects by your own innocence of life, encouraging, warning, persuading, correcting, and showing them an example by your good deeds."

• From a letter from Pope Gregory I to King Ethelbert c. 601 in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (Princess of the Byzantine Empire, 1083-1153)

"Blaming that which is blameless (a human characteristic which was after all familiar to Homer's Muse too) only serves to belittle noble deeds, and to subject to reproach those who do not deserve such."

• From The Alexiad by Anna Komnene, translated by E.R.A. Sewter, (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (Sayings recorded through 6th-3rd Century BCE)

"Never move
     Except for gain;
Never deploy
     Except for victory;
Never fight
     Except in a crisis."

• From Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter 12), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (150-215 CE)

"The sudden loss of control over one' composure, in the case of women, is called a giggle, the laugh of harlots, and in the case of men, a guffaw, the laughter of idle suitors, offensive to the ear."

• From "The Educator" by Clement of Alexandria, translated by Simon P. Wood (Catholic University Press of America, 1954).

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