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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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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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

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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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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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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

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

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Science is nothing but perception.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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

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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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