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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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A promise made must be a promise kept.

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Law is order, and good law is good order.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

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

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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For good is simple, evil manifold.

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It is likely that unlikely things should happen

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