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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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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 him.

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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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