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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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

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Pleasure is the bait of sin

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

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