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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

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One has no friend who has many friends.

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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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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.

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