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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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