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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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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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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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We work to earn our leisure.

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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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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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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