"Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues"
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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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"Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked."
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"The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul."
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"We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else."
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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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"In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless."
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"When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war"
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"If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting."
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"True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person."
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"A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated."
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"Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact."
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"We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means."
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"To love someone is to identify with them."
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"Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend."
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"True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods."
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"Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers."
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"When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings."
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"Law is mind without reason."
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"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
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