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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

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For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

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What soon grows old? Gratitude.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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