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- A man is the origin of his action.
- The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the…
- And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the…
- These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way…
- He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and…
- The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- 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…
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
- Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
- Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
- It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an…
- The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,…
- To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not…
- Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the…
- The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and…
- The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
- There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
- Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
- If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for…
- But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that…
- To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but…
- It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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