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Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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

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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

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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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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular 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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

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In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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Evils draw men together.

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