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We are what we frequently do.

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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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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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Greed has no boundaries

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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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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