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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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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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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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Beauty is the gift of God

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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The quality of life is determined by its activities.

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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

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