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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Man is naturally a political animal.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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