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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

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Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

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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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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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