"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us"
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"All proofs rest on premises."
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"You should never think without an image."
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"For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
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"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."
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"Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials."
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
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"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids."
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"A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher."
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"The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body."
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"Everyone honors the wise."
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"Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning."
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"The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event."
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"Philosophy is the science which considers truth."
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"The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
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"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
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"Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions."
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"Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself."
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"To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large."
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"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
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