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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

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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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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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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

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Hope is a waking dream.

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

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

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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