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Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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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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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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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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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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Love is the cause of unity in all things.

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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

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