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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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We must become just be doing just acts.

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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

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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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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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