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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

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

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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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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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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