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In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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We are what we frequently do.

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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

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95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

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