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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

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Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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