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Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

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The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

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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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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

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