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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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A friend is a second self.

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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

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...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

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To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

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It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

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

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The actuality of thought is life.

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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