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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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Talent is culture with insolence.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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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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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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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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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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