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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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