"In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy;……" — Thomas B. Macaulay

"In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man."

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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