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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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Character is revealed through action.

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Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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

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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

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

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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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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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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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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