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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.