Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”Ĭleovoulos (Cleobulus) of Rhodes 6th century B.C. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”.“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”.
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”.“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”.Focused on morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics): (Greek philosopher and polymath, student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. (Greek mathematician and inventor):Īristotle 384 B.C.-322 B.C. (Earliest writer of Greek tragedy who wrote 80 plays for theatre):Īrchimedes 287?-212 B.C. Her parents were Zeus and Metis, and she lived on Mount Olympus.Īeschylus 525-456 B.C. Her Roman incarnation, Minerva, embodied the same traits. Although Athena was also considered a goddess of war strategy, she disliked fighting without purpose and preferred to use wisdom to settle predicaments. In Greek mythology and religion, Athena (also called Athene, Pallas Athena) was known as the goddess of wisdom, divine intelligence, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, fair warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.