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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Truth is its own reward.

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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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A well begun is half ended.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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