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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

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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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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

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There is always something new coming out of Africa.

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