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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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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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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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You should never think without an image.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

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Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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