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41. “Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
42. “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.”
43. “Change in all things is sweet.”
44. “In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”
45. “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
46. “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
47. “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.”
48. “We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”
49. “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard t`o their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
50. “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
51. “A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.”
52. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
53. “The law is reason, free from passion.”
54. “Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.”
55. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
56. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
57. “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
58. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
59. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”
60. “Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.”
61. “It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
62. “Bad men are full of repentance.”
63. “He who hath many friends hath none.”
64. “Well begun is half done.”
65. “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
66. “Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
67. “Nature does nothing in vain.”
68. “What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
69. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
70. “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
71. “We make war that we may live in peace.”
72. “Wit is educated insolence.”
73. “The secret to humour is surprise.”
74. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
75. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
76. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
77. “Happiness depends upon ourselves!”
78. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
79. “Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
80. “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
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