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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 young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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Wit is well-bred insolence.

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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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A friend is another I.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

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Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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Love is the cause of unity in all things.

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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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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

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Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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Man by nature wants to know.

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Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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