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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

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A friend is another I.

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Character is revealed through action.

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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Art takes nature as its model.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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