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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.
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The greatest victory is over self.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
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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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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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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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Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.
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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
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