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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

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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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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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

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In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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It is no easy task to be good.

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