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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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