Leonid

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“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

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“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”

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“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

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“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.”

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“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”

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“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure.”

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“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

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“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

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“It is likely that unlikely things should happen.”

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“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

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“Man is by nature a political animal.”

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“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

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“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

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“Through discipline comes freedom.”

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“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.”

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“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

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“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

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