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Talent is culture with insolence.

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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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All men desire by nature to know.

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

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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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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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