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

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" 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. "

" Bad men are full of repentance. "

" No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. "

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

" The energy of the mind is the essence of life. "

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

" 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. "

" The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. "

" Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. "

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

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

" The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. "

" We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. "

" Law is mind without reason. "

" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

" 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. "

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

" Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. "

" For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. "

" What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. "

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" He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. "

" We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. "

" 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. "