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Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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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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Perception starts with the eye.

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

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There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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The actuality of thought is life.

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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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