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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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