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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

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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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You should never think without an image.

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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.

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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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