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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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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

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The greatest victory is over self.

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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

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Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

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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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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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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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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

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