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Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:—
’T is money makes the man; and he who ’s none
Is counted neither good nor honourable.

— Diogenes Laërtius The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)

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Virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God; on which account everything owes its existence and consistency to harmony.

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."

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Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

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He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."

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