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Law
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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Life
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Love
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection Are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Madness
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Memory
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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Men & Women
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
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Moderation
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
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It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
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Morals
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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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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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Nature
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All men by nature desire to know.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Personality
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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Pleasure
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Poetry
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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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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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Politics
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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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.
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Potential
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Poverty
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Praise
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
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Punishment
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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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