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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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

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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of 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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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Perception starts with the eye.

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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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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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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

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