“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”
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“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
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“We become brave by doing brave acts.”
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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
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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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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of al wisdom.”
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“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
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“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”
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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a God. ”
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“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
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“Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.”
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“Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.”
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“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”
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“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
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“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
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“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“Education is the best provision for old age.”
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