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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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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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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

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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.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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A man is the origin of his action.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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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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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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