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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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Wit is cultured insolence.

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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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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

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The actuality of thought is life.

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The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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

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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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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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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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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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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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