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(49 votes)   I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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(49 votes)   It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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(49 votes)   It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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(49 votes)   It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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(49 votes)   The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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(49 votes)   The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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(49 votes)   The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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(48 votes)   Education is the best provision for old age.

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(48 votes)   Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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(47 votes)   All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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(47 votes)   Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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(47 votes)   Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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(46 votes)   Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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(46 votes)   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.

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(46 votes)   The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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