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Young men have strong passions and often chase them without thought, especially desire. Aristotle also says that learning feels natural to every person, not just scholars, and warns that war should never be started to enslave the innocent. He notes that true honour comes from confirming a positive view of oneself.

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A man is the origin of his action.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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Evil brings men together.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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Evils draw men together.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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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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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they…

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as…

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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of…

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the…

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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but…

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to…

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men…

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the…

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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a…

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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into…

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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…

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things…

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy…

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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled…

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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled…

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem…

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur…

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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously…

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But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even…

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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

All men by nature desire to know.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.