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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

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Education begins at the level of the learner.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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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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In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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Human beings are curious by nature.

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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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