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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

That man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal who has the gift of speech.

The New Yale Book of Quotations
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Politics
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Politics
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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