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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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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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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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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 true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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