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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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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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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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