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

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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Excellent things are rare.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

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

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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

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