Happiness above all seems to be of this character, for we always choose it on account of itself and never on account of something else. Yet honor, pleasure, intellect, and every virtue we choose on their own account — for even if nothing resulted from them, we would choose each of them — but we choose them also for the sake of happiness, because we suppose that, through them, we will be happy.
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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
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