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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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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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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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A promise made must be a promise kept.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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