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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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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.
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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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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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