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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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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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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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