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Man Quotes by Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a…
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
- No one loves the man whom he fears.
- 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…
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right…
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
- He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
- Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
- Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
- The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
- At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was…
- The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
- ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,…
- So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — 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
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle