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It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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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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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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

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

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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

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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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Knowledge is true opinion.

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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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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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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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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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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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