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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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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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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

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