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- The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will…
- A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
- It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
- The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For…
- There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
- The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
- The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
- . . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
- Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
- Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
- If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own…
- The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his…
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
- In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
- For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
- The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
- Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can…
- The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
- It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
- 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,…
- The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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