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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

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He who hath many friends hath none.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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We make war that we may live in peace.

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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