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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

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The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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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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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

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Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

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