"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
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"We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful."
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"Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying."
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"When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."
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"Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain."
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"If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete."
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"The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)"
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"To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men."
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"The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to."
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"The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods."
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"The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low."
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"The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement."
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"The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function."
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"The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor."
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"It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal."
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"... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind."
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"Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios."
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"Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension."
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"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
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"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
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