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Man Quotes by Josef Pieper
- The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;…
- If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to…
- The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude…
- If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive…
- The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average…
- Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
- Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can…
- The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything…
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- 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
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle