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Anger (n.) makes a master of anyone who is able to bring it out in one.
Aprohairetic (n.) is a term referring to things subject to our exclusive power (judgment, impulse, desire, aversion). Prohairetic things are those things not subject to our exclusive power (health, material wealth, fame).
Binary opposition (n.) is a mistaken notion that does not exist. In fact the connection between the two terms in an opposition is an utter fabrication. Vice has nothing in common with virtue, or freedom with slavery.
The City (n.) benefits not by raising its roofs, but by exalting its souls. For it is better that great souls should live in small habitations than that abject slaves should burrow in great houses.
A Difficulty (n.) is things that show what men are.
Gratitude (n.) is shown poorly to the gods. When we are invited to a banquet, we readily take what is set before us. It would be absurd to ask for something not on the table. And yet with the Gods, though they have given much, we ask for what they do not give.
Happiness (n.) is closest to a philosophical life when it depends as little as possible on external things.
Happiness (n.) is that for which virtue is sufficient. The virtuous would be sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and yet happy, in disgrace and yet happy.
Happiness (n.) is achieved when one ceases to worry about the things which are beyond the power of one's will.
Laughter (n.) is something to be restrained and quiet.
A Listener (n.) carries the responsibility to stir the spirit of the speaker. When you want to hear a philosopher, show yourself worthy or fit to hear and you will move the speaker.
Listening (n.) is more important than talking. Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.