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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

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Talent is culture with insolence.

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

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