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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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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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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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