Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Do you feel no compunction, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty? I might fairly reply to him, You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action – that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
The first principle of all action is leisure.
Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action – this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.
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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean.
The case is similar with the idea as well: even if there is some one good thing that is predicated [of things] in common, or there is some separate thing, itself by itself, it is clear that it would not be subject to action or capable of being possessed by a human being.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction.