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Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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A friend is a second self.

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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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