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- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
- Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
- It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
- For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
- Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
- The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
- Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
- The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that…
- In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the…
- Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;…
- We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
- He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
- Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
- We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
- Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea…
- If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one…
- A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
- It is likely that unlikely things should happen
- [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good…
- The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
- All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle