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- Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can…
- Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
- The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
- 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.
- Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in…
- If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
- 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…
- 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…
- Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
- These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way…
- Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
- Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
- 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…
- Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
- 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…
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
- To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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