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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

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When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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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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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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We are what we frequently do.

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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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

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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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To perceive is to suffer.

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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

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