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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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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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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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

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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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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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Love is the cause of unity in all things.

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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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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Evil draws men together.

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Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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