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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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

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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.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

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