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- Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
- Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
- Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
- Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
- Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it…
- O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse…
- As the government is, such will be the man.
- Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
- What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character…
- Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
- . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is…
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this…
- We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,…
- Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part…
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
- No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their…
- You should not honor men more than truth.
- ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the…
- The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
- What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,…
- ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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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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