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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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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

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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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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

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Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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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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