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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
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You can never learn anything that you did not already know
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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All communication must lead to change
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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
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