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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

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The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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It is no easy task to be good.

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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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They who are to be judges must also be performers.

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A man is the origin of his action.

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The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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Friendship is communion.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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