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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

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

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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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We work to earn our leisure.

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

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