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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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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more ful...more

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

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this be...more

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by je...more

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man o...more

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it ...more

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we ...more

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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.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happi...more