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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
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"For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one."
"Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing."
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
"The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward."
"Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?"
"The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy."
"We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest."
"Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do."
"If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary."
"Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods."
"It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done."
"If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting."
"Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning."
"The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society."
"Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities."
"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
"Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech."
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
"The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
"Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature."
"When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this."
"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones."
"Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children."
"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. a"
"Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason."
"We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful."
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
"Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means."
"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government."
"Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it."
"But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed."
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