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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

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Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

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Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

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Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

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