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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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You are what you repeatedly do

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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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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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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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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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

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Wit is cultured insolence.

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