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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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Character is revealed through action.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

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Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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Happiness is a state of activity.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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