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The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

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The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

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Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

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