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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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The law is reason unaffected by desire.
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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.
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