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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

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Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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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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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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