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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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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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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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