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 1 1 |         think, Stranger, that the aim of our institutions is easily
 2 1 | legislator.~Athenian. And yet the aim of all the laws which he
 3 1 |          if war is not the entire aim and object of our own institutions,
 4 1 |          saying that this was the aim of the giver of the law,
 5 1 |        amusements, to their final aim in life. The most important
 6 3 |   descendants desired. What other aim would they have had?~Megillus.
 7 3 |          one of them only was the aim of legislation; whereas
 8 3 |           palpable that the chief aim of the kings of that time
 9 3 |           temperance is to be the aim, or wisdom is to be the
10 3 |            or wisdom is to be the aim, or friendship is to be
11 3 |           friendship is to be the aim, that all these aims are
12 3 |    opinion, the legislator should aim.~Athenian. Hear me, then:
13 4 |          results on a State whose aim is the attainment of just
14 4 |         mark at which we ought to aim. But what weapons shall
15 4 |           this will surely be the aim of the legislator in all
16 5 |        want?” and “Do I attain my aim, or do I miss the mark?”
17 6 |      states, at which we ought to aim, and according to this rule
18 6 |          Athenian. And is not the aim of the legislator similar?
19 6 |          women, old and young—the aim of all should always be
20 6 |          other institutions which aim at goods, as they are termed,
21 7 |        and makes them a principal aim, he will do much for the
22 7 |           are serious, others who aim only at raising a laugh—
23 8 |           war, or any other noble aim, but makes the orderly and
24 11|        like a good archer, should aim at the right measure of
25 12|          about such matters:—What aim would the general of an
26 12|       general of an army, or what aim would a physician propose
27 12|    Athenian. Does not the general aim at victory and superiority
28 12|      physician and his assistants aim at producing health in the
29 12|      proves to be ignorant of the aim to which the statesman should
30 12|         he does not even know the aim?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian.
31 12|     saying, will tell what is the aim of the state, and will inform
32 12|           able to tell his single aim in life, but you, the superior,
33 12|        say distinctly what is the aim of mind political, in return