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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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The soul is the form of the body

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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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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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

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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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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

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The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

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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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