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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

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We are what we continually do.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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