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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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All men by nature desire to know.
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