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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

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Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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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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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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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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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

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