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

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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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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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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

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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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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

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Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

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Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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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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