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"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
"A friend is a second self."
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
"A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end."
"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had."
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
"All men by nature desire knowledge."