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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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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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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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