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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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Love well, be loved and do something of value.

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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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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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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