We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Happiness is the reward of virtue.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.