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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Beauty is the gift of God

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

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