"The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children."
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"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities."
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"To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter."
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"Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."
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"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
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"And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention."
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"A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions."
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"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
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"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
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"The law is reason, free from passion."
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"Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have."
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"Fortune favours the bold."
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"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
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"Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers."
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"Perception starts with the eye."
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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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"The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well."
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
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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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"All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers."
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