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

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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

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. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Fortune favours the bold.

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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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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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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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