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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

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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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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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Greed has no boundaries

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Art takes nature as its model.

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

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