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/ page 694 of 1205 /I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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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.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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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.
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Well begun is half done.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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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.
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