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- We make war that we may live in peace.
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in…
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or…
- Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
- Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
- The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
- Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were…
- Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,…
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
- There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.…
- We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put…
- It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
- Without friends no one would choose to live.
- We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
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