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Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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

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If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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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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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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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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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

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A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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