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The secret to humor is surprise
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The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
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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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
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The gods too are fond of a joke
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The end of labour is to gain leisure.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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