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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

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

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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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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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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Wit is cultured insolence.

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God has many names, though He is only one Being.

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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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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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