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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

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