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- 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…
- Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
- When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and…
- 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…
- The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are…
- 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.
- But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people…
- Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding…
- .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
- Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in…
- 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…
- If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
- Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then…
- 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…
- It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
- 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.
- What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess…
- Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing…
- Evils draw men together.
- A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
- Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
- Evil draws men together.
- I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
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