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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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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. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity he is a savage beast or a god.
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To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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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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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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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
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