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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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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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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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The intention makes the crime.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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

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