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Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.

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Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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

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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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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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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

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