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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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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

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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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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

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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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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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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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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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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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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

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