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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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