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" Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. "
Aristotle
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" Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. "
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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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" Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "
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" Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. "
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" Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. "
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" A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. "
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" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. "
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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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" The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. "
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" Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. "
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" Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. "
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" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "
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" If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. "
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" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "
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" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "
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" My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. "
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" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "
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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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