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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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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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Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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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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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

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These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

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