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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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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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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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There is honor in being a dog.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

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Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

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That which is excellent endures.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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