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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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Law is mind without reason.

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Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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Happiness is the highest good

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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

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

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

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Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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