The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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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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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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