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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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Friendship is communion.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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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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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

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