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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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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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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.
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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
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