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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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Fortune favours the bold.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

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Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

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