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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which... ...

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state,... ...

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.