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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

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Friendship is communion.

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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Greed has no boundaries

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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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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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