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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

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Wickedness is nourished by lust.

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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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