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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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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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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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Love is the cause of unity in all things.

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Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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