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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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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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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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You should never think without an image.

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

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The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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We can't learn without pain.

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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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