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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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Beauty is the gift of God

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The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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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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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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No one loves the man whom he fears.

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