"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."
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"Law is order, and good law is good order."
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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"Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted."
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"It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult)."
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"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator."
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"The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case."
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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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"Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them."
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"The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit."
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"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
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"95% of everything you do is the result of habit."
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"A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity."
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"You are what you do repeatedly."
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"You can never learn anything that you did not already know"
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
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"All men seek one goal: success or happiness."
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