The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmen...
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It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.
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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...
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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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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
