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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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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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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

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Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

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