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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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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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Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

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A person's life persuades better than his word.

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Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

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