"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
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"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
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"All things are full of gods."
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"Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth."
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"Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief."
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"To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity."
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
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"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
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"It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws."
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"Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul."
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"The hand is the tool of tools."
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
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"Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete."
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"Change in all things is sweet."
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"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature."
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"Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents."
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"He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless."
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"For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing."
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"Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue."
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