For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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