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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. Th...
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evident...
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly b...
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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order ...
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But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then...
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. All art is concerned with coming into being ... for a...
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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discus...
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They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude - bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions.
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
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