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"It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?"
"If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause."
"Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues."
"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."
"The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives."
"You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it."
"The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats."
"Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm."
"The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States."
"Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."
"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."
"Report me and my cause aright."
"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."
"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
"[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS."
"The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue."
"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."
"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."
"Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it."
"The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed."
