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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

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Education begins at the level of the learner.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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Beauty is a gift of God.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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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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We are what we repeatedly do.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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