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1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Adventure is worthwhile.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

A friend is a second self.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), 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); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

All men desire by nature to know.

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.