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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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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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Nature does nothing in vain.

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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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You are what you repeatedly do

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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