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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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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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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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Perception starts with the eye.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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The physician heals, Nature makes well.

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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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