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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly describe...more

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas tho...more

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all o...more

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but t...more

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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

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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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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.