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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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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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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

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Your happiness depends on you alone.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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It is no easy task to be good.

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There is always something new coming out of Africa.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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