"All human happiness and misery take the form of action."
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"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed."
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"Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]"
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"Happiness is activity."
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"The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance."
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"A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast."
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."
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"A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence."
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
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"Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it."
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"So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency."
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"Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder."
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"It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre."
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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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"God has many names, though He is only one Being."
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"Every great genius has an admixture of madness."
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"Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."
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"One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member."
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