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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.
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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
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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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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Anybody can get hit over the head.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
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