Quotes Alphabetically

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Man - a being in search of meaning. - Plato.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. - Plato.

Man is by nature a political animal. – Aristotle.

Man is manifestly the baldest of all animals. – Aristotle.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. - Plato.

Many a little makes a mickle. - Benjamin Franklin.

Marriage is…the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which you are most likely to find solid happiness. - Benjamin Franklin.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. – Aristotle.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. – Aristotle.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. – Aristotle.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle.

Most people would rather give than get affection. – Aristotle.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. - Plato.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? - Plato.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle.