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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

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