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Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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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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The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

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The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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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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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

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