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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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Either a beast or a god.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

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Change in all things is sweet.

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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

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They who are to be judges must also be performers.

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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

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