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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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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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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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We are what we frequently do.

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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