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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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The best things are placed between extremes.

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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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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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

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