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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
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Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
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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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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
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Wicked me obey from fear good men,from love.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
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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.
Aristotle
We work to earn our leisure.
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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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