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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

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When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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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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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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