Book Meme

I thought this was a good way to get this blog on the way. I'm a bookworm. Its a known fact for those who know me. My head is always stuck in a book. I have just come back from a two week break in Iran to visit my parents and my father commented as he left me at the airport that during those two weeks he did not see my face for it was always behind a book :0) Thats the extent that I am a bookworm!

Anyway - With no further ado - the Book Meme:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)

The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

2. Open the book to page 123.

Done

3. Find the fifth sentence.

Therefore the justice or injustice of citizens is not manifested in these relations; for it was as we saw according to the law, and between people naturally subject to law, and these as we saw are people who have an equal share in ruling and being ruled.

4. Post the next three sentences.

Thus justice can more truly be manifested towards a wife than towards children and cattles, for the former is household justice; but even this is different from political justice.
Of political justice part is natural, part legal, -- natural, that which everywhere had the same force and does not exist by peoples thinking this or that; legal, that which is originally indifferent, but when it has been laid down is not indifferent, e.g, that a prisoners ransom shall be a mina, or that a goat and not two sheep shall be sacrificed, and again all the laws that are passed for particular cases e.g. that sacrifice shall be in honour of Brasidas, and the provisions of decrees. Now think that all justice is of this sort, because that which is by nature is unchangeable and has everywhere the same force ((as fire burns here and in Persia) , while they see change in the things recognized as just.

Long sentences from dear old Aristotle!

I tag Amira, fatima and anyone else who wants to do it :0)