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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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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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Our need will be the real creator.

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