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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

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A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, 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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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

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Greed has no boundaries

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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Philosophy begins with wonder.

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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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