"And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force."
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"The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny."
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"The gods too are fond of a joke."
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"For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one."
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"He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times."
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".. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition."
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"There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel."
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"Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue"
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"Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities."
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"Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
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"1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes."
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"The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god."
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"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."
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"There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . ."
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"All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence."
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"Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health"
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"We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face."
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"There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience."
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"Nature creates nothing without a purpose."
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"Authority is no source for Truth."
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