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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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

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

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

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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The beginning is half of the whole.

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

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The wisest have the most authority.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

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