"The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others."
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"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
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"We make war that we may live in peace."
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"To perceive is to suffer."
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"Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible."
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"The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference."
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"No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway."
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"The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
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"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."
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"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society."
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"Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving."
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"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
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"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person."
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"You are what you repeatedly do"
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"We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage."
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"A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader."
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"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
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"The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses."
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