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Democracy passes into despotism.

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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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

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A well begun is half ended.

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

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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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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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