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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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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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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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