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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

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The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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