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- The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the…
- Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two…
- Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and…
- 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…
- Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to…
- 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…
- It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
- 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 true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of…
- Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
- 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…
- Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
- If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to…
- When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to…
- For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he…
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among…
- Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
- Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but…
- And not only did men pass into animals, but I must also mention that there were animals tame and wild who changed into one another…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle