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Man is by nature a political animal.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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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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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man o...more

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the law...more

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these...more

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We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality a...more