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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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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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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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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

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