Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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