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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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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

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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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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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All communication must lead to change

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

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Our actions determine our dispositions.

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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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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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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