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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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Authority is no source for Truth.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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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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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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