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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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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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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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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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