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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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Either a beast or a god.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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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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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.

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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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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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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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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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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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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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