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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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There is honor in being a dog.

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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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

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You are what you repeatedly do

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

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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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