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just as the efficient cause of true friendship is virtue, so the efficient cause of philosophy is truth; and just as the goal of true friendship is worthy pleasure, which issues from living together according to what is specifically human, that is, according to reason (as Aristotle clearly holds), so the goal of philosophy is that most excellent pleasure which does not suffer from any interruption or flaw
— Oct 18, 2026 11:44AM
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Riches cannot be the source of nobility, since they are base by their very nature; this baseness makes them contrary to nobility. Baseness here is equivalent to “the cause of imperfection”; this makes baseness the opposite of nobility,
— Oct 27, 2026 05:00AM
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now that [...] the soul has been touched on I shall make a digression to discuss it, for a discussion of this will be a happy way to say a final word on that one who lives in blessedness, Beatrice, of whom it is my express intention not to speak further in this book. I declare that of all brutish opinions none is more stupid, more base or more pernicious than the belief that there is no other life after this.
— Oct 08, 2026 04:21AM