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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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To perceive is to suffer.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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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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A friend is a second self.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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Happiness is the highest good

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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