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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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A friend is a second self.

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

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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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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

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In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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