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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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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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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

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