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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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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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Our need will be the real creator.

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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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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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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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