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Philosophy Read each of the following quotes from ancient philosophers. Provide an argument why these quotes may or may not be called statements. Source: Masterworks of Philosophy.
(a) "A friend is a friend of someone"—Socrates
(b) "Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of what the Chief Good is, 'that which all things aim at.'"—Aristotle
(c) "Furthermore, Friendship helps the young to keep from error: the old, in respect of attention and such deficiencies in action as their weakness makes them liable to; and those who are in their prime, in respect of noble deeds, because they are thus more able to devise plans and carry them out." —Aristotle
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