"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
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"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."
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"The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them."
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"Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold"
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"We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference."
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"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
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"Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth."
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"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts."
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"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
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"A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything."
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"If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason."
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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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"He who hath many friends hath none."
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"The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."
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