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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

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

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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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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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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Happiness depends on ourselves.

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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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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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Everyone honors the wise.

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