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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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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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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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All communication must lead to change

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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A friend is a second self.

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