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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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

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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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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 in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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