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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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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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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

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