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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

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

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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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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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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