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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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

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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

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The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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What soon grows old? Gratitude.

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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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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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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

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The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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Happiness depends on ourselves.

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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

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1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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