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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

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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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Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

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

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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