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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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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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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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We are what we repeatedly do.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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We work to earn our leisure.

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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

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All communication must lead to change

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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

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