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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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We can't learn without pain.

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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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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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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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