The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... A mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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All proofs rest on premises.
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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.
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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
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Beauty is a gift of god.
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... The science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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[prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . Our choice of actions will not be right without prudence any more than without moral virtue, since, while moral virtue enables us to achieve the end, prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.
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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
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In the works of nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
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The eyes are the organs of temptation, and the ears are the organs of instruction.
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You are what you repeatedly do
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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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![[prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . Our choice of actions will not be right without prudence any more than without moral virtue, since, while moral virtue enables us to achieve the end, prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.](https://www.relicsworld.com/images/quotes/thumbs/prudence-is-the-virtue-of-that-part-of-the-intellect-the-cal-author-aristotle.jpg)
