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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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All things are full of gods.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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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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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.