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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

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Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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

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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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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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