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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

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Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

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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 democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

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Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Education begins at the level of the learner.

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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

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