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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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For good is simple, evil manifold.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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Beauty is a gift of God.

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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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