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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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For good is simple, evil manifold.

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Law is mind without reason.

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

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

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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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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