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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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Evil draws men together.

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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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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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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

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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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