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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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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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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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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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

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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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

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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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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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