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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2). Translated by Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government (1781), p. 381
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