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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.
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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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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 souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
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