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"All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature."
"In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state."
"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life."
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
"Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed."
"Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason."
"It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits"
"The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy."
"The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else."
"Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man."
"By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents"
"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity."
"Try is a noisy way of doing nothing."
"A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties."
"Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life."
"The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning."
"In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain"
"What soon grows old? Gratitude."
"One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration."
"Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment"