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For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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