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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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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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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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Art takes nature as its model.

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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