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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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All art is concerned with coming into being.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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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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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

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The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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