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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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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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To perceive is to suffer.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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