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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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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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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

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Worms are the intestines of the earth.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

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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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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

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The actuality of thought is life.

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