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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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