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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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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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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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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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Every realm of nature is marvelous.
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Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
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