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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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Greed has no boundaries

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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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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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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