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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

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