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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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- Hippocrates Excerpt from Regimen (February 13, 2012)

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

- Hippocrates Excerpt from Regimen (February 13, 2012)
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Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

- Theophrastus Excerpt from On Sense Perceptions (February 13, 2012)
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If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

- Theophrastus Excerpt from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (February 13, 2012)
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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Nicomachean Ethics II.1105b9 (February 13, 2012)
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited ... and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficultto miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Nicomachean Ethics II.1106b28 (February 13, 2012)
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Nicomachean Ethics I.1097b25 (February 13, 2012)
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