"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
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"Happiness is a state of activity."
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"Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech."
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"The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
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"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
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"Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit."
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"The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest."
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"Bad men are full of repentance."
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"Wonder implies the desire to learn."
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"There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is."
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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
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"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."
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"Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no."
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"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."
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"People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together."
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"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor."
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"And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce."
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"Art takes nature as its model."
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"All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth."
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"We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite."
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