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Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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Philosophy begins with wonder.

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

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So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

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There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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