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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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Authority is no source for Truth.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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