"Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things."
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"Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever."
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"A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance"
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"The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
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"[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off."
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"The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart."
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"It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete."
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"For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible."
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"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies"
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"No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature."
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"Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously."
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". .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature."
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"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so."
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"What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions."
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"It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble."
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"The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all."
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"In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause."
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"One has no friend who has many friends."
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"When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial."
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"A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth."
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