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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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

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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

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

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

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