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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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To know what virtue is is not enough we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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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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Human beings are curious by nature.
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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
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To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
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The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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