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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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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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We are what we repeatedly do.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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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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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

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