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

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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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.

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

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Bad men are full of repentance.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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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.

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

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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.

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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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.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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The soul never thinks without a picture.

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

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