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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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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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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Plato was a bore.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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