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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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The probable is what usually happens.

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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

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The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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