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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

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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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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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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

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What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

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Evil draws men together.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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