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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

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Truth is its own reward.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

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

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

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