"We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils."
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"Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil."
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"Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire."
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."
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"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."
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"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
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"Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had."
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"Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together."
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"The avarice of mankind is insatiable."
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"Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed."
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"It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it."
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"It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many."
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"The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity."
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"Wit is cultured insolence."
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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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"If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited."
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"So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions."
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"When we deliberate it is about means and not ends."
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"It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs."
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"The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this."
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