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" Most people would rather give than get affection. "

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" For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. "

" The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. "

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

" Bad men are full of repentance. "

" We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. "

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

" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

" Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "

" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

" Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. "

" In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. "

" Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. "

" It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. "

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

" Quality is not an act, it is a habit. "

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

" Hope is a waking dream. "

" Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. "

" Well begun is half done. "

" Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. "

" My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. "

" Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. "

" For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. "

" Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. "