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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

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Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

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Fortune favours the bold.

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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

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

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

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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