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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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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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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

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That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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