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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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