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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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