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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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You are what you do repeatedly.

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One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

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

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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

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A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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