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Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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Anybody can get hit over the head.

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

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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Happiness is activity.

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