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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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All men are alike when asleep.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

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All proofs rest on premises.

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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

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