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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

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The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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