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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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All men by nature desire to know.

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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

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It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection Are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

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Wit is educated insolence

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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

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What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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