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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

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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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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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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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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

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