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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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Either a beast or a god.

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The physician heals, Nature makes well.

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Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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All men are alike when asleep.

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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

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A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

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Friendship is communion.

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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

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You can never learn anything that you did not already know

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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

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The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

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