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Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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