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- We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with…
- And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent…
- Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell…
- The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
- There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not…
- The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
- Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
- One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and…
- 'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves…
- Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
- Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
- So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
- The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service…
- More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
- As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
- By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him…
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
- If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
- Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
- The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
- Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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