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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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Greed has no boundaries

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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