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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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All proofs rest on premises.

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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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The intention makes the crime.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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Art takes nature as its model.

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

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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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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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Change in all things is sweet.

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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