"But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?"
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"The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction."
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"A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed."
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"Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual."
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"Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul."
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"Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize."
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"A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge."
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"Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver."
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"I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy."
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"Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love"
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"The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness."
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"The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things."
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"Every realm of nature is marvelous."
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"Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding."
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"Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember."
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"... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves."
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"There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter."
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"The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy."
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"Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained."
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"Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure."
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