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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
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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.
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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.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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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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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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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