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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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