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- In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and…
- Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
- The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the…
- We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than…
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the…
- The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone…
- A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
- Man was not made for himself alone
- Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another,…
- The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks…
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be…
- It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a…
- He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to…
- No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they…
- It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
- To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
- It is right to give every man his due.
- The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
- No man should be angry with what is true.
- Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
- A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and…
- Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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