Aristotle Quotes, Mean Quotes, Men Quotes

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

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For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

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It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

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Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

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My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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