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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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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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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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