To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
From Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Law is mind without reason.
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
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