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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

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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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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

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