"The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin."
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"Talent is culture with insolence."
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"The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary."
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"... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity."
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"Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."
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"Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all."
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"A vivid image compels the whole body to follow."
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"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
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"Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body."
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"Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them."
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"The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good."
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"That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker."
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"That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution."
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"Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education."
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"Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which."
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"That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue."
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"Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be."
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"But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals."
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"Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls."
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"If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man."
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