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" It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. "

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" Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. "

" The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. "

" The gods too are fond of a joke. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

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" He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. "

" A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. "

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" The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. "

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

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" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. "

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" In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. "

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" Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. "

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