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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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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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