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

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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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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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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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