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" 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. "

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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. "

" Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. "

" Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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" There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. "

" Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. "

" Change in all things is sweet. "

" Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. "

" It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "

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

" Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. "

" Law is mind without reason. "

" A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. "

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" Most people would rather give than get affection. "

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

" Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. "

" Man is by nature a political animal. "

" 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. "

" The end of labor is to gain leisure. "