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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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

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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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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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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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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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

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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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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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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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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 all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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