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A person's life persuades better than his word.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

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

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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

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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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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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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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Happiness depends on ourselves.

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Beauty is a gift of God.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

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