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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

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What soon grows old? Gratitude.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

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Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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