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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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Men aquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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No great genious has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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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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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only approximation is possible.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to ther persons.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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

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The least deviation from the truth will be multiplied later.

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Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody´s power and is not easy.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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A friend is a second self.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examinations is false wit.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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Happiness is a state of activity.

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If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

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To love someone is to identify with them.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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To give money is an easy matter and in any man´s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in everyman´s power nor an easy matter.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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Law is mind without reason.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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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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To perceive is to suffer.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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Evil brings men together.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beoynd your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

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One swallow does not make a summer.

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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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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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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We make war that we may live in peace.

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We must as second best…take the least of the evils.

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.

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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 of mere companionship.

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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unaltered.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government the utmost.

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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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Nature does nothing uselessly.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Well begun is half done.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into excistence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.

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Evil dras men together.

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

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