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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

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For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a sta...more

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these...more

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Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as...more

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One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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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 h...more

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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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.