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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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The intention makes the crime.

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

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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Greed has no boundaries

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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

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Wit is educated insolence.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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