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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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Greed has no boundaries

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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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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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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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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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All proofs rest on premises.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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The law is reason, free from passion.

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