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Avarice (n.) itself, however consuming, and even secure of impunity, would a hundred times rather reach its object by innocent than by guilty means.
Cabbage (n.) surpasses all other vegetables, for a lot of cabbage seasoned with vinegar before and after dinner will allow one to eat a big digger and make one feel as if one had not eaten, and one can drink as much as one likes.
Courage (n.) is impossible unless pain is not an evil, for no man can disregard and despise a thing he decides to be evil.
Discovery (n.) delights children for its own sake: they take pleasure in finding something out by reason, even though they gain nothing by it.
Emotion (n.) is not excited by any influence of nature; emotions are all mere fancies and frivolous opinions, and so the wise man will always be free from them.
Goodness (n.) is absolute: like honey, it is known as sweet by its own peculiar flavour and not by comparison with something else.
Happiness (n.) is no more desirable lasting than brief: if the merit of a shoe were to fit the foot, many shoes would be no better than few.
Health (n.) deserves a certain value, but it is not a good.
Life (n.) has to be conducted in a certain fixed way, as an actor or dancer is assigned not any part he likes but a particular part or dance.
Ornament (n.) in nature serves no useful purpose: the peacock's tail, the dove's shifting plumage, the beard of the male human being.