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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

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These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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Men create the gods after their own images.

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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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