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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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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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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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Happiness is a state of activity.

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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

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We work to earn our leisure.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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

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