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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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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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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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