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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

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Happiness is self-connectedness.

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

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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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