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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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Human beings are curious by nature.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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Through discipline comes freedom.

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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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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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A promise made must be a promise kept.

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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

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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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