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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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