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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
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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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The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
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For good is simple, evil manifold.
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
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