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(41 votes)   The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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(41 votes)   The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

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(41 votes)   Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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(41 votes)   This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

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(41 votes)   Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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(41 votes)   We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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(41 votes)   We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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(40 votes)   Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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(40 votes)   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.

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(40 votes)   If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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(40 votes)   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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(40 votes)   Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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(40 votes)   Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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(40 votes)   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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(40 votes)   Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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