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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

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I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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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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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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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

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Adventure is worthwhile.

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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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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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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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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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