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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

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There is honor in being a dog.

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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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Evils draw men together.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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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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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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