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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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People generally despise where they flatter.

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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You are what you repeatedly do

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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