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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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

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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

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It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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Greed has no boundaries

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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