"Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence."
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"Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day."
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"The law is reason unaffected by desire."
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"Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue."
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"Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal."
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"Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government."
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"But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul."
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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23"
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"Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit."
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"The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics."
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"Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally."
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"Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
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"Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune."
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"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing."
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"Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love."
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"A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul."
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"Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love."
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"A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best."
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"Friendship is communion."
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"He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them."
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