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| Ethics Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult -- to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). | Aristotle | Ethics | |
| 2 | With regard to honour and dishonour the mean is proper pride, the excess is known as a sort of 'empty vanity', and the deficiency is undue humility. | Aristotle | Ethics | |
| 3 | Now death is the most terrible of all things; for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be any longer either good or bad for the dead. | Aristotle | Ethics | |
| 4 | Minds are conquered not by arms but by love and magnanimity. | Spinoza | Ethics | |
| 5 | The more a man imagines that he is praised by other men, the more is this joy strengthened; for the more a man imagines that he is praised by others, the more does he imagine that he affects others with joy accompanied by the idea of himself as a cause, | Spinoza | Ethics | |
| 6 | If we imagine any one to love, desire or hate anything which we ourselves love, hate or desire, by that very fact that we shall love, love, hate, or desire it the more. | Spinoza | Ethics | |
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