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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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Education begins at the level of the learner.

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The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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