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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

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The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

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