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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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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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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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We must become just be doing just acts.

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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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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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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