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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

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Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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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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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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