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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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Human beings are curious by nature.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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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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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

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