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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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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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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

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Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

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