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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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Men create the gods after their own images.

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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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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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All things are full of gods.

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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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