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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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There is honor in being a dog.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

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