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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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The hand is the tool of tools.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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The intention makes the crime.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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