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It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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Any peace is better than any war

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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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Is virtue something that can be taught?

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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