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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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All things are full of gods.

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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

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