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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

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