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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited … and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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In educating the young we use pleasure and pain as rudders to steer their course.
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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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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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The end of this science [ethics] is not knowledge but action.
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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 noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
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And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined to go on living not for any casual period but throughout a complete lifetime in the same manner, and to die accordingly, because the future is hidden from us, and we conceive happiness as an end, something utterly and absolutely final and complete? If this is so, we shall pronounce those of the living who possess and are destined to go on possessing the good things we have specified to be supremely blessed, though on the human scale of bliss.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.
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The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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We will more easily accomplish what is proper if, like archers, we have a target in sight.
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Born:
383 BC
Died:
321 BC
(aged 62)
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