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

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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The quality of life is determined by its activities.

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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