"It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue."
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"In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities."
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"It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous."
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"We deliberate not about ends, but about means."
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"Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible."
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"The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth."
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"Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue."
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"We become just by the practice of just actions."
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"Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean."
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"The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature."
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"The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom."
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"There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom."
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"Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good.""
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"I seek to bring forth what you almost already know."
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"Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles."
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"A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end."
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"As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail."
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"Men are good in but one way, but bad in many."
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"If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is."
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"... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable."
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