Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

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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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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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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

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