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" The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. "

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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. "

" Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. "

" The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. "

" A friend to all is a friend to none. "

" Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. "

" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

" Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. "

" The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. "

" Education is the best provision for old age. "

" Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. "

" He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. "

" What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. "

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

" 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. "

" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" Law is mind without reason. "

" 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. "

" Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. "

" No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. "

" For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. "

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" The law is reason, free from passion. "

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. "

" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "

" Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. "

" The secret to humor is surprise. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. "