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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

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Evils draw men together.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

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