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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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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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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

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