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If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle
Running, Men, Doing You

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Aristotle
Running, Law, Anarchy

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

Aristotle
Running, Adventure, Men
Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

Aristotle
Running, Lying, Two

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Aristotle
Suicide, Running, Suicidal
Nicomachean Ethics 3

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Aristotle
Running, Men, People
Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.18, Aeterna Press

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