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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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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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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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