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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

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We are what we repeatedly do.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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

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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

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Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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