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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ↗

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— Aristotle

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ↗

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— Aristotle

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Most people would rather give than get affection. ↗

— Aristotle

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

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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. ↗

— Aristotle

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I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

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