"Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"Happiness is self-connectedness."
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
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"In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same."
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"He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave."
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"The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects."
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"The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires."
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"He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible."
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely."
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"Between friends there is no need of justice."
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"It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do."
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"Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
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"Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves."
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"But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct."
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"There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government."
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"Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty."
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"And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state."
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"For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state."
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"All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves..."
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"To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil."
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