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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

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The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

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Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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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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We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

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Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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