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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

State Person Ought Good
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Wise Speak Fool Say
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Kind Meet Battle Fighting
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Hero Among Wise Found
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Those Able See Beyond
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Mission Survive Thrive Passion
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
True Exist Equal Between
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Beauty Style Grace Depend
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Moral Law Soul Universe
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Angry Help Person Two
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Think Tough Dangerous Capable
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

Love Become Something Truly
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Good Anyone Else Myself
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Pain Learn When Have
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Always Never Amazing Normal
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Wise Victim Wish Anyone
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

World Between Truth Fact
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Someone Show Time First
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Heart Care Somebody Succeed
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Respect Insist Myself Everybody
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Hard Play Life Love
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it

Want Great Love Sacrifice Whatever
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me.

Best Count Counting Because
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