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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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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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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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Happiness is activity.

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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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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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

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