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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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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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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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The actuality of thought is life.

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

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Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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