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- Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
- Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
- If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul…
- Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),…
- Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
- One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the…
- For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect…
- Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can…
- That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all…
- Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
- The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other…
- Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;…
- God has many names, though He is only one Being.
- No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
- Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
- The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
- Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves…
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one…
- A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
- Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,…
- Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the…
- Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
- But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that…
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