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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Insolence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wit is educated insolence.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Fonder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well begun is half done.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change in all things is sweet.
- Arising
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- Justly
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- Nov 07, 2020
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a waking dream.
- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- Bad Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad men are full of repentance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
- Apprehensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is by nature a political animal.
- Degenerate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
- Degrade
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- Nov 07, 2020
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people would rather give than get affection.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is the best provision for old age.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Dearer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
- Deceived
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law is reason, free from passion.
- Nov 07, 2020
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Misfortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020