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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

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

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

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