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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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmen...more

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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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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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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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To perceive is to suffer.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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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.