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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

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We are what we continually do.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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The quality of life is determined by its activities.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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