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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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