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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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

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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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