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All human beings desire to knowπάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει.

Aristotle, the first sentence of the Metaphysics

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The top of the climb: the opening sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

He gives the sign straight away: we delight in our senses for their own sake, even when they are of no use to us, and most of all in sight, because sight most of all helps us to know things.

This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on, 4 Life is short, 5 The art is long, 6 The measure of all things, 7 I do not think I know, 8 The unexamined life, 9 An animal of the city, 10 Full of gods, 11 They say many fine things.

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The lineAristotle, Metaphysics 1.1 (980a), in the reader

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

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