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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

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It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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A person's life persuades better than his word.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

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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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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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To perceive is to suffer.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

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