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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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A friend is a second self.

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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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Well begun is half done.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

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