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- The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which…
- Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war…
- So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality…
- I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to…
- Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
- For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still…
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then…
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered…
- And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
- And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of…
- Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way…
- And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others,…
- If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would…
- A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog…
- The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of…
- According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them…
- . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made…
- I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem…
- ... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may…
- Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour