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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

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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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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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Truth is its own reward.

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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

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

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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

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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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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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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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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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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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