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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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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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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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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

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In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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