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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

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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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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

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Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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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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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

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Nothing is what rocks dream about

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