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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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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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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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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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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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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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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

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