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Birth Quotes by Aristotle
- To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
- A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
- All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,…
- Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from…
- For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice…
- Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
- Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a…
- This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and…
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- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving… — Erma Bombeck
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough