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Without Friends No One Would Choose To Live, Though He Had All Other Goods.

So The Good Has Been Well Explained As That At Which All Things Aim.

People Do Not Naturally Become Morally Excellent Or Practically Wise. They Become So, If At All, Only As The Result Of Lifelong Personal And Community Effort.

The High-minded Man Is Fond Of Conferring Benefits, But It Shames Him To Receive Them.

Moral Virtue Is ... A Mean Between Two Vices, That Of Excess And That Of Defect, And ... It Is No Small Task To Hit The Mean In Each Case, As It Is Not, For Example, Any Chance Comer, But Only The Geometer, Who Can Find The Center Of A Given Circle.