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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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There is honor in being a dog.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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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.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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