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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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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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Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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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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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

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Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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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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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

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