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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

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This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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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.

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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

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For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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