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Worms are the intestines of the earth.

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Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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Philosophy begins with wonder.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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Either a beast or a god.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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