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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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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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

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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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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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All men desire by nature to know.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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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 avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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