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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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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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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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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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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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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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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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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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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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