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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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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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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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

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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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