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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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Every realm of nature is marvelous.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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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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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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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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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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