"In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure."
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"The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life."
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"Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute."
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"They who are to be judges must also be performers."
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"The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."
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"Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative"
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"Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts."
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"That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill."
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"Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term."
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"Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
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"The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way."
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"Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned."
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"Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know."
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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."
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"Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute."
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"With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."
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"For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all."
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"Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."
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