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 1     II, V   |     thinks will make the state virtuous, should expect to improve
 2    III, XIII|       the rich, another of the virtuous, and so on. But a difficulty
 3    III, XIII|      we to decide? Suppose the virtuous to be very few in number:
 4     IV, II  |   oligarchy and the rest being virtuous), democracy is the worst,
 5      V, I   |        spring from wealthy and virtuous ancestors. Here then, so
 6      V, VIII|         such opposites are the virtuous and the many, or the rich
 7      V, X   |     family excel in virtue and virtuous actions; whereas a tyrant
 8      V, XI  |        lovers of honor and the virtuous when their honor is affected.
 9      V, XI  |        His disposition will be virtuous, or at least half virtuous;
10      V, XI  |     virtuous, or at least half virtuous; and he will not be wicked,
11      V, XII |    cannot be educated and made virtuous. But why is such a cause
12    VII, I   |      virtue and wisdom, and of virtuous and wise action. God is
13    VII, II  |       virtue say that the more virtuous a city is, the happier it
14    VII, III |       cannot do well, and that virtuous activity is identical with
15    VII, III |     happiness is assumed to be virtuous activity, the active life
16    VII, III |  complete in themselves; since virtuous activity, and therefore
17    VII, XIII|        for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely
18    VII, XIII|     use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense
19    VII, XIII|     and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who
20    VII, XIII|    share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the
21    VII, XIII|      inquire how a man becomes virtuous. For even if we could suppose
22    VII, XIII| suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being
23    VII, XIII|        which make men good and virtuous; these are nature, habit,