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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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Character is revealed through action.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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