Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"Are we not more likely to achieve our aim if we have a target?"

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

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Hans Denck

Hans Denck (c. 1495-1527)

"Oaths and swearing should not be done because no human has power to keep them."

• From Concerning True Love (c. 1527), by Hans Denck, translated b D. Liechty (Paulist Press, 1994).

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Confucius

Confucius (6th-5th century BCE)

"The demands that a gentleman makes are upon himself; those that a small man makes are upon others."

• From The Analects of Confucius (Book XV, 20) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241)

"Although we have been told various stories and have heard about other dees, it seems to us better that our account shoullater be expanded than that it should have to be emended."

• From King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturlusson, translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson (Penguin Classics, 1966, 2005).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

"Just as at the Olympic Games it is not the best-looking or the strongest men present that are crowned with wreaths, but the competetors (because  it is from them that the winners come), so it is those who act that rightly win the honours and rewards in life."

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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Wherever there is drunkenness about
No secret can be hidden, make no doubt."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Man of Law's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Egil Skallagrimsson

Egil Skallagrimsson (semi-mythical 10th-century Icelandic Viking-Poet)

"King, bear in mind
how my ode is wrought,
I take delight
in the hearing I gained.
Through my lips I stirred
from the depths of my heart
Odin's sea of verse
about the craftsman of war."

• Egil's Saga (recorded c. 13th century possibly by Snorri Sturluson), translated by Bernard Scudder. New York: Penguin Classics, 2004 edition.

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