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Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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