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“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative”

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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.

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It…

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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are…

All men by nature desire to know.

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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