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He who hath many friends hath none.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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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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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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