One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Philosopher, logic, natural science
From 'Nicomachean Ethics', Book I, Chapter 7. A well-known idiom attributed to him.
c. 340 BCE
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"The female is also more given to idleness and more lazy, and more prone to sleep."
Controversial"For the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind."
Shocking"The slave has no deliberative faculty at all; the woman has, but it is without authority, and the child has, but it is immature."
Controversial"The slave is wholly lacking the deliberative element; the female has it but it lacks authority; the child has it but it is incomplete."
Shocking"All men by nature desire knowledge."
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