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"Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense."
"We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you."
"Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it."
"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god."
"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."
"It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize."
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
"Men create the gods after their own images."
"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."
"Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."
"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
"To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold."
"Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
"It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen."
"A friend is another I."
"He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude."
"The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet."
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
"We are what we continually do."