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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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