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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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