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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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