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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

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Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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They who are to be judges must also be performers.

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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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