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Mere Quotes by Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. .…
- 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…
- . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not…
- In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right…
- Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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- The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — James Agee
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