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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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Wit is cultured insolence.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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

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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

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Adventure is worthwhile.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

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