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(193 votes)   It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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(189 votes)   happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

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(183 votes)   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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(177 votes)   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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(175 votes)   We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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(74 votes)   Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

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(60 votes)   Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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(59 votes)   A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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(59 votes)   The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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(58 votes)   And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

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(58 votes)   Happiness is a sort of action.

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(58 votes)   Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

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(57 votes)   Man is naturally a political animal.

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(56 votes)   At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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(56 votes)   The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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