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

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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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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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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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There is always something new coming out of Africa.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

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