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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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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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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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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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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

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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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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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Love is the cause of unity in all things.

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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

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Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

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