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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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...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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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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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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperat...more

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good...more

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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.

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A man without regrets cannot be cured.

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One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by h...more