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- If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would…
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this…
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem…
- Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
- I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt…
- What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world…
- Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,…
- Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of…
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
- By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him…
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
- Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
- The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the…
- Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would…
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
- Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another,…
- For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the…
- Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
- Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we…
- Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle