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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

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

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

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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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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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