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To Be Angry Is Easy. But To Be Angry With The Right Man At The Right Time And In The Right Manner, That Is Not Easy.
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To Be Angry Is Easy. But To Be Angry With The Right Man At The Right Time And In The Right Manner, That Is Not Easy.

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Waiting
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Justice
Judging
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Evil
Human Nature
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Many Friends
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Writing
Speak
Easy
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Doing You
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Hate
Mistake
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Suicide
Suicidal
Law
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Self
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Men
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Light
Shadow
Now All Orators Effect Their Demonstrative Proofs By Allegation Either Of Enthymems Or Examples, And, Besides These, In No Other Way Whatever.
Example
Way
Proof
When...we, As Individuals, Obey Laws That Direct Us To Behave For The Welfare Of The Community As A Whole, We Are Indirectly Helping To Promote The Pursuit Of Happiness By Our Fellow Human Beings.
Pursuit Of Happiness
Law
Community
It Is Clear That There Is Some Difference Between Ends: Some Ends Are Energeia [energy], While Others Are Products Which Are Additional To The Energeia.
Hard Work
Science
Differences
Happiness Lies In Virtuous Activity, And Perfect Happiness Lies In The Best Activity, Which Is Contemplative
Lying
Philosophical
Perfect
Conscientious And Careful Physicians Allocate Causes Of Disease To Natural Laws, While The Ablest Scientists Go Back To Medicine For Their First Principles.
Science
Law
Medicine
The Tyrant, Who In Order To Hold His Power, Suppresses Every Superiority, Does Away With Good Men, Forbids Education And Light, Controls Every Movement Of The Citizens And, Keeping Them Under A Perpetual Servitude, Wants Them To Grow Accustomed To Baseness And Cowardice, Has His Spies Everywhere To Listen To What Is Said In The Meetings, And Spreads Dissension And Calumny Among The Citizens And Impoverishes Them, Is Obliged To Make War In Order To Keep His Subjects Occupied And Impose On Them Permanent Need Of A Chief.
War
Men
Light
The Gods Too Are Fond Of A Joke.
Inspirational
Life
God
Where Perception Is, There Also Are Pain And Pleasure, And Where These Are, There, Of Necessity, Is Desire.
Pain
Perception
Desire
The Greatest Thing In Style Is To Have A Command Of Metaphor.
Style
Metaphor
Command
Just As A Royal Rule, If Not A Mere Name, Must Exist By Virtue Of Some Great Personal Superiority In The King, So Tyranny, Which Is The Worst Of Governments, Is Necessarily The Farthest Removed From A Well-constituted Form; Oligarchy Is Little Better, For It Is A Long Way From Aristocracy, And Democracy Is The Most Tolerable Of The Three.
Kings
Names
Government
Masculine Republics Give Way To Feminine Democracies, And Feminine Democracies Give Way To Tyranny.
Giving
Democracy
Republic
The Educated Differ From The Uneducated As Much As The Living From The Dead.
Life
Death
Education
The Fool Tells Me His Reason; The Wise Man Persuades Me With My Own.
Wise
Men
Fool
Great And Frequent Reverses Can Crush And Mar Our Bliss Both By The Pain They Cause And By The Hindrance They Offer To Many Activities. Yet Nevertheless Even In Adversity Nobility Shines Through, When A Man Endures Repeated And Severe Misfortune With Patience, Not Owing To Insensibility But From Generosity And Greatness Of Soul.
Crush
Pain
Adversity
It Is Well To Be Up Before Daybreak, For Such Habits Contribute To Health, Wealth, And Wisdom.
Motivational
Morning
Health
We Become Just By Performing Just Action, Temperate By Performing Temperate Actions, Brave By Performing Brave Action.
Courage
Philosophical
Brave
There Is No Genius Who Hasn't A Touch Of Insanity.
Insanity
Genius
Music Imitates (represents) The Passions Or States Of The Soul, Such As Gentleness, Anger, Courage, Temperance, And Their Opposites.
Passion
Opposites
Soul
The Life Of Children, As Much As That Of Intemperate Men, Is Wholly Governed By Their Desires.
Children
Men
Desire
When You Have Thrown A Stone, You Cannot Afterwards Bring It Back Again, But Nevertheless You Are Responsible For Having Taken Up The Stone And Flung It, For The Origin Of The Act Was Within You. Similarly The Unjust And Profligate Might At The Outset Have Avoided Becoming So, And Therefore They Are So Voluntarily, Although When They Have Become Unjust And Profligate It Is No Longer Open To Them Not To Be So.
Taken
Unjust
Stones
Rhetoric Is The Counterpart Of Logic; Since Both Are Conversant With Subjects Of Such A Nature As It Is The Business Of All To Have A Certain Knowledge Of, And Which Belong To No Distinct Science. Wherefore All Men In Some Way Participate Of Both; Since All, To A Certain Extent, Attempt, As Well To Sift, As To Maintain An Argument; As Well To Defend Themselves, As To Impeach.
Men
Way
Logic
The Wise Man Knows Of All Things, As Far As Possible, Although He Has No Knowledge Of Each Of Them In Detail
Wise
Men
Details
Whereas The Law Is Passionless, Passion Must Ever Sway The Heart Of Man.
Passion
Heart
Men
If A Man Of Good Natural Disposition Acquires Intelligence [as A Whole], Then He Excels In Conduct, And The Disposition Which Previously Only Resembled Virtue, Will Now Be Virtue In The True Sense. Hence Just As With The Faculty Of Forming Opinions [the Calculative Faculty] There Are Two Qualities, Cleverness And Prudence, So Also In The Moral Part Of The Soul There Are Two Qualities, Natural Virtue And True Virtue; And True Virtue Cannot Exist Without Prudence.
Men
Two
Soul
A Flatterer Is A Friend Who Is Your Inferior, Or Pretends To Be So.
Inferiors
Flatterer
Most Men Appear To Think That The Art Of Despotic Government Is Statesmanship, And What Men Affirm To Be Unjust And Inexpedient In Their Own Case They Are Not Ashamed Of Practicing Towards Others; They Demand Just Rule For Themselves, But Where Other Men Are Concerned They Care Nothing About It. Such Behavior Is Irrational; Unless The One Party Is, And The Other Is Not, Born To Serve, In Which Case Men Have A Right To Command, Not Indeed All Their Fellows, But Only Those Who Are Intended To Be Subjects; Just As We Ought Not To Hunt Mankind, Whether For Food Or Sacrifice . .
Art
Sacrifice
Men
We Should Behave To Our Friends As We Would Wish Our Friends Behave To Us
Friendship
Wish
Should
Man Perfected By Society Is The Best Of All Animals; He Is The Most Terrible Of All When He Lives Without Law, And Without Justice.
Animal
Men
Law
For Well-being And Health, Again, The Homestead Should Be Airy In Summer, And Sunny In Winter. A Homestead Possessing These Qualities Would Be Longer Than It Is Deep; And Its Main Front Would Face The South.
Summer
Winter
Quality
It Is Just That We Should Be Grateful, Not Only To Those With Whose Views We May Agree, But Also To Those Who Have Expressed More Superficial Views; For These Also Contributed Something, By Developing Before Us The Powers Of Thought.
Grateful
Views
Agreement
Anaximenes And Anaxagoras And Democritus Say That Its [the Earth's] Flatness Is Responsible For It Staying Still: For It Does Not Cut The Air Beneath But Covers It Like A Lid, Which Flat Bodies Evidently Do: For They Are Hard To Move Even For The Winds, On Account Of Their Resistance.
Moving
Cutting
Science
Happiness Is Thought To Depend On Leisure; For We Are Busy That We May Have Leisure, And Make War That We May Live In Peace.
War
May
Leisure
Find The Good. Seek The Unity. Ignore The Divisions Among Us.
Unity
Division
The Basis Of A Democratic State Is Liberty
4th Of July
Liberty
States
Every Wicked Man Is In Ignorance As To What He Ought To Do, And From What To Abstain, And It Is Because Of Error Such As This That Men Become Unjust And, In A Word, Wicked.
Ignorance
Men
Errors
Here And Elsewhere We Shall Not Obtain The Best Insight Into Things Until We Actually See Them Growing From The Beginning.
Science
Growth
Growing
Whosoever Is Delighted In Solitude Is Either A Wild Beast Or A God.
Loneliness
Being Alone
Solitude
There Is A Cropping-time In The Races Of Men, As In The Fruits Of The Field; And Sometimes, If The Stock Be Good, There Springs Up For A Time A Succession Of Splendid Men; And Then Comes A Period Of Barrenness.
Life
Spring
Men
Quid Quid Movetur Ab Alio Movetur"(nothing Moves Without Having Been Moved).
Moving
Moved
He Who Has Conferred A Benefit On Anyone From Motives Of Love Or Honor Will Feel Pain, If He Sees That The Benefit Is Received Without Gratitude.
Gratitude
Pain
Honor
Good Laws, If They Are Not Obeyed, Do Not Constitute Good Government.
Government
Law
Ifs
Happiness Does Not Consist In Pastimes And Amusements But In Virtuous Activities.
Inspirational
Inspiring
Motivation
This Body Is Not A Home, But An Inn; And That Only For A Short Time. Seneca Friendship Is Composed Of A Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies.
Home
Two
Soul
I Say That Habit's But A Long Practice, Friend, And This Becomes Men's Nature In The End.
Inspirational
Men
Practice
...one Greek City State Had A Fundamental Law: Anyone Proposing Revisions To The Constitution Did So With A Noose Around His Neck. If His Proposal Lost He Was Instantly Hanged.
Law
Cities
Political
Once More: There Are Three Offices According To Whose Directions The Highest Magistrates Are Chosen In Certain States - Guardians Of The Law, Probuli, Councilors - Of These, The Guardians Of The Law Are An Aristocratical, The Probuli An Oligarchical, The Council A Democratical Institution.
Government
Law
Office
People Of Superior Refinement And Of Active Disposition Identify Happiness With Honour; For This Is Roughly Speaking, The End Of Political Life.
People
Political
Human Nature
The Citizens Begin By Giving Up Some Part Of The Constitution, And So With Greater Ease The Government Change Something Else Which Is A Little More Important, Until They Have Undermined The Whole Fabric Of The State.
Giving Up
Government
Important
Every Virtue Is A Mean Between Two Extremes, Each Of Which Is A Vice.
Mean
Two
Vices
The Precepts Of The Law May Be Comprehended Under These Three Points: To Live Honestly, To Hurt No Man Willfully, And To Render Every Man His Due Carefully.
Hurt
Men
Law
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