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

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

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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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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.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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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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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.