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

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Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

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Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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