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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

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Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

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