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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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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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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

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

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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We are what we frequently do.

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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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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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