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Authority is no source for Truth.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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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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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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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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Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

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