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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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True friendship can exist only between equals.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

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Philosophy begins in wonder.

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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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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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I would fain grow old learning many things.

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