Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato
man
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
accident man
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
slavery man
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
victory man
Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
places harmony man
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
virtues man mind beauty
But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
rules man
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
self
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
life wisdom science
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
wonder wonders
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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