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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
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"Man is by nature a political animal."
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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 government."
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"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
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"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
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"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
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"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."
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