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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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The soul is the form of the body

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Either a beast or a god.

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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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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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

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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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