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Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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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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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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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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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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