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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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