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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

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What we expect, that we find.

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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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