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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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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 of mere companionship.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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A plausible impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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A friend is a second self.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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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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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Nature does nothing uselessly.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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