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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Perception starts with the eye.

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While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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Everyone honors the wise.

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