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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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