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Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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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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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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