"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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"If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible."
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"Beauty is a gift of God."
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"We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic."
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"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has."
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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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"Either a beast or a god."
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"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends."
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"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."
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"But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end."
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"The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil."
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"It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want."
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"To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward."
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"The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy."
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"Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous."
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
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"To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature"
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"The basis of a democratic state is liberty"
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"Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail."
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"What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others."
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