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" We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. "

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

" In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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