The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
ARISTOTLEThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
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A friend is a second self.
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