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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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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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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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