Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Man as social animal✕clear

Classical antiquity5 quotes

Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 This is living, not to live unto oneself alone. — Menander · 290 BC He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god. — Aristotle · 350 BC Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. — Euripides · 400 BC No man is wise enough by himself. — Plautus · 184 BC

Age of Enlightenment3 quotes

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. — Adam Smith · 1759 Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations... His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels. — Adam Smith · 1759 The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, An' none but he! — Robert Burns · 1785

Old Testament Era1 quote

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. — Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 · 931 BC