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[the virtues] cannot exist wi...

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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Men in general desire the goo...

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle 192 quotes

Men agree that justice in the...

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Accordingly, the poet should ...

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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What is common to many is lea...

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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The line has magnitude in one...

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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The ridiculous is produced by...

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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A good style must, first of a...

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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The business of every art is ...

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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Time is the measurable unit o...

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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. .we would have to say that ...

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

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Let us be well persuaded that...

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

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It is the activity of the int...

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

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Men come together in cities i...

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Aristotle 192 quotes

Once more: there are three of...

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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If every tool, when ordered, ...

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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The souls ability to nourish ...

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

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This body is not a home, but ...

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Anything whose presence or ab...

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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How strange it is that Socrat...

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

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