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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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

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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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Your happiness depends on you alone.

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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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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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The soul is the form of the body

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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