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Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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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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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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

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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

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