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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

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A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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Those who act receive the prizes.

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

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Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

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