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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Your happiness depends on you alone.

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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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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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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

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A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

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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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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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