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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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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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