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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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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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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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