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He who hath many friends hath none.

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

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It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

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Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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All communication must lead to change

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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