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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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