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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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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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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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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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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

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