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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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We become just by the practice of just actions.

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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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All men desire by nature to know.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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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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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

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

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