"All men by nature desire knowledge."
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"And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul."
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"Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles."
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"Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon."
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"If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean."
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"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
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"Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise."
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"Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves."
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"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
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"The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society."
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"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
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"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip."
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"A person's life persuades better than his word."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms"
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"Philosophy can make people sick."
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"Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises."
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"The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure"
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"The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody."
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"The first principle of all action is leisure."
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