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

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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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.

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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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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.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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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.

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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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.

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