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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

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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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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

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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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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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

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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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We are what we continually do.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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