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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

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