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(44 votes)   Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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(43 votes)   Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

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(43 votes)   Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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(43 votes)   Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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(43 votes)   Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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(43 votes)   Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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(43 votes)   Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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(43 votes)   Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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(43 votes)   Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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(43 votes)   He who hath many friends hath none.

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(43 votes)   He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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(43 votes)   Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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(43 votes)   If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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(43 votes)   In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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(43 votes)   In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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