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" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "

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" A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. "

" Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. "

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" The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

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