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A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

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. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

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

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

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Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

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