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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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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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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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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

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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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...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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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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