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The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

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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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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

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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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There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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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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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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

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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

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