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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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