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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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That which is excellent endures.

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Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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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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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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