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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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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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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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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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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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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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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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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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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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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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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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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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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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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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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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A well begun is half ended.

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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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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