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• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
  If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence...
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
  We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly....
• I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the grea
  and their mean boast of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate, the scorn of all who know the worth of mind and virtue....
• No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more courageous than health.
  -- Colto...
• Heaven lasts long, and Earth abides What is the secret of their durability?
  Is it because they do not live for themselves That they endure so long?...
• Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.
• By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. -- Robert Lynd
• The widespread idea that people should make self-improvement a primary goal in their lives is problematic because it assumes that people are intrinsically deficient.
• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
  -- Aristotle...