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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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

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Change in all things is sweet.

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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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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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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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