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" Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "

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" In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

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

" The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. "

" 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. "

" Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "

" Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. "

" Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. "

" Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. "

" Well begun is half done. "

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

" The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. "

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

" A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. "

" He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. "

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

" Hope is a waking dream. "

" No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. "

" Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. "

" Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. "

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

" Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. "

" In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. "

" The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. "

" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "

" The whole is more than the sum of its parts. "

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" 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. "

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