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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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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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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

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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 happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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