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

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" Well begun is half done. "

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

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

" Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. "

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

" In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. "

" The end of labor is to gain leisure. "

" 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. "

" Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. "

" Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. "

" Most people would rather give than get affection. "

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

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" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "

" The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. "

" 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. "

" The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. "

" 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. "

" Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. "

" Education is the best provision for old age. "

" Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. "

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

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" 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. "