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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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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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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
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The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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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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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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