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> [Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/aristotle-was-but-a-wreck-of-an-adam-and-athens-but-the-rubbish-of-an/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

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> [An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/an-aristotle-was-but-the-rubbish-of-an-adam-and-athens-but-the/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

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## Other authors on Aristotle

## More by Robert South

> [There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/there-is-not-the-least-flower-but-seems-to-hold-up-its-head-and-to/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/action-is-the-highest-perfection-and-drawing-forth-of-the-utmost/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/loquacity-storms-the-ear-but-modesty-takes-the-heart/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-mind-begins-to-boggle-at-unnatural-substances-as-things/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-grateful-person-fears-no-court-or-judge-no-sentence-or/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/in-all-worldly-things-that-a-man-pursues-with-the-greatest-eagerness/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/speech-was-given-to-the-ordinary-sort-or-men-whereby-to-communicate/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/god-expects-from-men-something-more-than-at-such-times-and-that-it/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/it-is-a-noble-and-great-thing-to-cover-the-blemishes-and-excuse-the/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/the-seven-wise-men-of-greece-so-famous-for-their-wisdom-all-the-world/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/flints-may-be-melted-we-see-it-daily-but-an-ungrateful-heart-cannot/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/he-who-does-a-kindness-to-an-ungrateful-person-sets-his-seal-to-a/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/anger-is-a-transient-hatred-or-at-least-very-like-it/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/god-afflicts-with-the-mind-of-a-father-and-kills-for-no-other-purpose/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

> [A man's life is an appendix to his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-south/a-man-s-life-is-an-appendix-to-his-heart/)

[Robert South](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-south/)

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