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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

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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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Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

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

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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