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" The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. "

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

" The law is reason, free from passion. "

" Most people would rather give than get affection. "

" The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. "

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

" I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. "

" 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. "

" The end of labor is to gain leisure. "

" He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. "

" 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. "

" Man is by nature a political animal. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. "

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" Law is mind without reason. "

" To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. "

" 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. "

" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

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

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" Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. "

" 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. "

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

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