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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

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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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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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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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