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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

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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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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

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Our actions determine our dispositions.

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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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