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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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No one loves the man whom he fears.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

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A friend is another I.

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Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

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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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What soon grows old? Gratitude.

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When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

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Wickedness is nourished by lust.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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