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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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Authority is no source for Truth.

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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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Evils draw men together.

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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

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

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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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