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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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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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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

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