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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Firsts Quotes

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

Firsts Quotes

No science ever defends its first principles.

Firsts Quotes

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.

Firsts Quotes

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Firsts Quotes

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Real Quotes

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Honesty Quotes

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Helping others Quotes

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

Smart Quotes

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Desire Quotes

Well begun is half done.

Philosophical Quotes

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Time Quotes

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.

I say that habit’s but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men’s nature in the end.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

Man’s best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Real Quotes

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Firsts Quotes

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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