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Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly describe...more

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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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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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

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

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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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

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

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great cri...more

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more w...more

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Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussi...more