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"The gods too are fond of a joke."	God
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."	Government
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."	Government
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."	Happiness
"Hope is a waking dream."	Hope
"The secret to humor is surprise."	Humor
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."	Humor
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."	Ideas
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."	Love
"The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men."	Marriage
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Miscellaneous
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."	Miscellaneous
"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."	Miscellaneous
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."	Miscellaneous
"One swallow does not make a summer."	Miscellaneous
"Bad men are full of repentance."	Morality
"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."	Morality
"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."	Morality
"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids."	Morality
"Nature does nothing uselessly."	Nature

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